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Digital Journalist

Blasting News Inc. Published: January 5, 2017
Location
Anywhere
Work can be done remotely
Job Type
Company Type
Large Organization

Description

Main Goal

Produce premium content (unique, original, smart) for Blasting News' American edition.

Main Responsibilities

Publish daily a package made of three news articles:

  • One main article: minimum 3000 characters in length
  • Two side articles: minimum 1000 characters in length
  • [Optional] Video based on the topic of the day

Share and promote the news package on social media platforms and through social networks

Competences and Experience

  • Strong journalistic background (ideally a senior journalist)
  • Ability to verify sources and fact-check articles
  • SEO skills
  • Real interest in social media marketing.
  • Basic video production skills
  • Extremely passionate about innovative online media paradigms, social journalism and democracy in the information system.
  • Strong knowledge of publishing content on the web.
  • Native speaker in English.

Operating Details

  • Type of contract: freelance.
  • Job Location: anywhere. The journalist is not required to check in at an office.
  • Total number of opening packages required: 25 news articles/month.

Compensation

  • Fixed compensation: $1,000 per month (or $40 per content)
  • Variable compensation: up to $500.0 per each article (including either fixed and variable amounts) based on the number of readers of the article. Video, if present will be paid additionally.

Selection Process

  • The candidates must send the resume and at least a sample article from their portfolio.
  • The HR team will evaluate the resume and will follow up with the candidate.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Launched in mid-2013, Blasting News is now the fastest growing global news publisher: the 145th most visited website in the world (Alexa Ranking), counting on 100+ million monthly unique visitors and 1 million blasters from 34 countries, who publish 22.000+ original news each month in 24 different languages. Blasting News has been selected and funded by Google Innovation Fund (DNI) to revolutionize digital information in Europe. Blasting News has offices in London (headquarters), New York, Sao Paulo, Milan, Rome and Singapore.

Blasting News has an ambitious goal: to make our world a better place, giving everyone the possibility of sharing ideas with a global audience and enjoying truly independent information. Blasting News is made by the people, made for the people: at the core, Blasting News is a news publisher totally fueled and curated by the crowd: news is produced by delocalized contributors (Blasters) and fact-checked and curated by a quality team of professionals (Senior Blasters). Both Blasters and Senior Blasters are paid based on performance; in addition to this, the best news may be distributed around by the Social Blasters, a global team of digital influencers selected through application and interviews. All the core processes are managed by technology: e.g., home pages are handled by a patent-pending algorithm without human intervention.

Blasting News has a very innovative proposition:

  • 100% Independent - Blasting News encourages a wide range of points of view. All blasters can freely choose the topic and the medium of their contents. Blasting News has adopted George Whitefield’s principle “We’ll just have to agree to disagree.”
  • 100% Democratic - Blasting News does not have any central editorial office: we have developed a technology that promotes the most interesting, highest quality news, taking into account a huge number of factors.
  • 100% Meritocratic - Blasters earn money thanks to a simple quality-based system: the more people that read the content, the more money the Blaster receives. Money comes from advertisement sold on the webpages.
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