Write for JoBlo.com?

Are you a good writer? Do you love movies? Do
you have time to spare? Do you love dishing the scoops, researching
news stories, scouring the Net for all things movie-related and writing about the latest and greatest to come? If so, you
may just be the ideal candidate to help fortify our MOVIE NEWS
SECTION (the section that you are in right now), so take a look
at the requirements below and see if you’re ready, able and wanting
to join the JoBlo.com team!

Position:
News Editor(s)

What is it exactly?
You would be in charge of finding, writing and putting together
movie news stories every day of the week– pictures and all. The
person(s) we hire for this gig would be asked to scour the Net for
scoops and news, put them together in an entertaining and
informative manner (natch) and provide for at least 3-4 stories a
day, for shifts yet to be decided.

Do I need to be
living in a certain area to get this job? Not at all. This job
is open to anyone from any country, any city, any street, any gas
station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and
doghouse… 😉 As long as you’ve got a solid connection to the
Internet, email and can surf…you are a likely candidate.

How much does this
job pay? Believe it or not, the gig actually pays some money! A
quarterly fee will be sent your way, so your parents can get off
your back about "wasting all that time on the Net".
Nothing that would make you quit your day job, of course, but
some cool drinking allowance money, I suppose. Oh, and you’ll
also get to display your writing skills to the world (close to
100,000 unique visitors/day), slap the gig on to your
CV/resume, receive an extra cool new email address which ends in @joblo.com and
plenty of groovy real-life Internet company work experience (ie.
handjobs).

Are there any
opportunities for advancement? Absolutely! Pretty much everyone
working on the site today (about 25-30 people) was hired via the
Internet, and once we’re happy with your work, any opportunities for
advancement within our JoBlo Movie Network will be presented to you
FIRST. Mike Sampson started out as a news editor on our site, and
now he runs that shit.

JoBlo.com’s last X-Mas party….

What
is required of this post?

• You must be serious
  about your application, the vacant position and be, at least,
  18 years old.

• You must be an
  excellent writer, bar-none. If you send us an email with
  spelling and grammatical errors, it will not be considered. Our
  kind of humor helps as well, but professionalism is even
  more important.

• You must have basic
  .html skills, although we also have a WYSIWYG back-end, so it’s
  not a make/break thing. No elaborate skills, just the basics, but you also
  need to have some Photoshop experience as you would need to crop
  and insert pictures into your stories, etc… (or any other
  picture editing program). You have to be comfortable
  cropping, editing, fooling around with pictures!

• With the new
  Internet being all about video and what-not, experience with
  videos would also be a great asset, although we’d also be
  training you on how embed/convert videos to our site. 

• All Web 2.0
  experience will also be considered an added asset, so please
  mention any of your experiences using Digg, Twitter, Facebook,
  movie blogging and all that other fun stuff.

• You must be able to
  commit to this job for at least a period of 6-12 months and
  obviously fit into the time slots that we require. You might not be covering the "trade" write-ups, so
  make sure that you know of some alternate cool movie news items
  to write about every day…

How
do I apply?

Send me a direct email
at [email protected] titled NEWS
EDITOR and include in it why you think you would be
ideally suited for this post (you gotta really sell me with shit
to back it up as as well!)

*MAKE SURE TO COVER ALL OF THE ABOVE
REQUIREMENTS!*

Also, include your full name, age,
geographical location as well as a few writing samples SPECIFIC to
what you’d be doing on this site. DO NOT send me links to your
personal blog or papers you wrote in college. Preferably short news stories in the same vein as our articles here.

PLEASE
DO NOT WRITE US A BOOK! We receive over 100 applications for these
gigs, so succinctness is a definite "plus" for us!

Email
me at [email protected]