Description
Inquisitr.com is a leading News Aggregator and Original News publication that currently employs dozens of online writers.
Our platform currently reaches more than 14 million readers per month with nearly 20 million pageviews.
Inquisitr is a Google News, Yahoo News and Bing News included website.
We are currently seeking 10-20 new writers to join our rapidly growing team.
We offer fast promotion after the completion of our intern program.
This position starts with intern pay of $5 per article (300+ words per article). Authors are given 100 articles to write during their first month.
Promotions are given based on consistency of a writers work and their ability to attract pageviews (we provide you with the proprietary and basic knowledge tools needed to find trending and hot topic news)and meet quota.
Internships typically last 30-90 days depending on how quickly a writer learns our system.
Interns who are borderline for a full-time position will be bumped up in pay per article and the number of articles they can publish on a monthly basis (to further gauge their success).
We have a full-time hire rate for our interns of approximately 90%.
FULL-TIME PAY: $24,000 to $48,000 per year.
Depending on your output and the number of articles you write the standard full-time pay will vary. Many of our writers jump from Full-Time State One to other Full-Time Stages very quickly.
Article Times: Typically an article should take no more than 30 minutes to complete from start to finish. Our interns typically earn $10-$15 per hour and full-time writers earn $14-$21 per hour. Our top performers earn additional pay.
While we value speed we do have a team of writers who examine articles and therefore consistency in writing is also important.
Prizes: We love to give away prizes, we recently gave away 15 iPads, a Macbook Pro, and various other gifts during monthly prize contests. We really believe in our writers and our writing community and love to reward top earnings.
I (James Johnson - Editor) am personally available by Email, Facebook, Skype and Cell Phone at all hours of the day. Our goal is to encourage our writers and foster a sense of their worth with Inquisitr.com
Requirements:
1. WordPress Experience (Decent understanding - we won't train writers on the basics of using the platform).
2. Very basic photo editing (MS Paint or Mac Paint)
3. English as your FIRST LANGUAGE
4. Ability to work at a very quick pace.
5. Willing to post all of your stories to Google+, Twitter, Facebook Fan Page (we will help you set this up), and Pinterest.
6. Hard Working, not afraid to work at a very fast pace.
7. Fast, consistent internet. WordPress can be a little bogged down sometimes and we can't have someone sit on a breaking story for 2 hours because of frequent internet problems.
8. SEO Experience. Even a rudimentary understanding. Our team has built its own SEO platform that offers semantic keyword searching and other avenues for our writers to quickly figure out the target of each article. WARNING: We DO NOT allow Black Hat SEO to be used for any reason.
Please Note: No. 4 is very important, for aggregated news we don't simply rewrite articles, we find multiple sources and use information we find to create a more full picture of each news story we publish. Many of our writers also receive information directly from original subjects to incorporate into their posts.
Training: We offer various pieces of guidance include an authors only web portal that provides videos, tips, tricks, etc. to help your writing. Most of our writers also engage with one another in a private Skype group we have created and through secret Facebook groups where we share story leads, offer social media help and share words of encouragement among our large and growing staff.
We pay via Paypal at the start of each month. Full-Time workers also have the option of Wire Transfer to save money on any fees and to save time.
If you have what it takes to write well though out, highly engaging news content please submit the required info to get started.