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WNV is hiring a blogger!
by The Editors
Waging Nonviolence is seeking a journalist or activist with writing experience to blog about movements focused on racial justice, immigrant rights and LGBTQ equality.
We are a non-profit media organization devoted to providing original news and analysis about struggles for justice and peace around the world. Our core audience is comprised of activists, organizers, scholars and journalists, but we also reach a much wider, more general audience through the numerous larger outlets that republish our content — such as The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Huffington Post, In These Times, Yes! Magazine and openDemocracy.
The ideal candidate has:
- A demonstrated ability to produce multiple short pieces per week
- Established connections to the groups, activists and communities working on the above mentioned issues
- A passion for activism
- The desire to understand and explain how it can affect change
- The ability to be (constructively) critical when necessary
- The skill to break down oftentimes complex issues, politics or organizing efforts and make them engaging for a broad audience
Waging Nonviolence is committed to diversity and is especially interested in hiring members of underrepresented communities, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.
Job responsibilities include:
- Working remotely, but maintaining regular correspondence with editors
- Being on top of the news cycle and staying plugged into activist networks
- Reliably pitching and producing two short blog posts (300-700 words each) per week
Posts can be either breaking news or movement-oriented analysis (for examples, see here and here).
Compensation: We pay $50 per post.
What we offer aside from regular paid work:
- A structured writing environment with deadlines
- Direct communication with an editor who will help you improve your writing
- The freedom to pursue stories of true substance (not clickbait)
- The opportunity to hone an undercovered beat and generate a body of clips
- The opportunity to contribute to a growing resource read by many of today’s leading activists and organizers — and help build an archive of the day-to-to work of the movements shaping our world.
- Our writers have gone on to write and work for Democracy Now!, Vice, The Guardian, The Intercept, Rolling Stone and elsewhere.
How to apply:
Email [email protected] with a short description of your professional background, the issues you have experience writing about (with links to published articles), and two story ideas for posts you would have written this week. Resume/CV is not necessary.
Application deadline: Sunday, July 24.
People-powered news and analysis
Source: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2016/07/wnv-hiring-blogger-2/
