Know your community?

Examiner.com, a Top 100 website, seeks freelance writers and photographers (“Examiners") to share local insights, knowledge and experience about neighborhood-related topics. It’s a great way to cover what you love and communicate what’s happening in your city.

Some hot topic titles include:

• Neighborhood-specific Examiner titles needed
• Beautification Examiner
• City Politics Examiner
• Downtown Examiner
• Green Architecture Examiner
• Haunted Places Examiner
• History Examiner
• Little-Known Facts Examiner
• Neighborhood Photography Examiner
• Public Art Examiner
• Real Estate Examiner
• Urban Renewal Examiner
• And many others to choose from or you can propose your own topic to write about!

Click on the following to get an idea of what other Examiners in this channel are writing about:

Chicago Community Life Examiner
Longmont Examiner
Vallejo Community Examiner

Why Become an Examiner?

• Enhance your resume and build an online audience
• Create your own schedule and telecommute
• Retain creative freedom to cover what you want within your selected topic
• Join the largest team of vetted freelance content contributors online
• Take advantage of our platform, promotion, training, tools and an exclusive networking system to connect with other Examiners
• Earn competitive pay as an independent contractor, based on standard internet variables including page views, unique visitors, session length, and advertising performance, so your income grows as your readership grows
• Participate in additional income opportunities through incentive programs
• Enjoy being recognized as an expert on your topic, similar to some Examiners who have been interviewed by The Today Show, NPR, E!, CNN, Fox Sports, ESPN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets.

Who are Examiners?

• Screened writers who provide reliable information on a local subject of their choosing
• Photographers who provide captivating images and stories for their audience
• Credible, passionate, and knowledgeable insiders who contribute original content to entertain, inform, and inspire their readers
• People from all walks of life - college students, civil servants, stay-at-home parents, retirees, PhDs, musicians, scientists and professional journalists who have full-time or part-time jobs

The talented people we're looking for can provide their local community with interesting and helpful information in one of 25 categories such as Food & Drink, Home & Living, Politics, Transportation, etc. There are unlimited topics to choose from within each category. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, propose your own when you apply!

 Qualifications

• Passion for the topic!
• Strong writing ability including style, technique, spelling, punctuation, etc.
• Access to timely, accurate information within their topic
• Ability to keep their homepage current, which usually means publishing a minimum of two to four brief articles (approx 200-400 words) per week depending on the topic
• Desire to build their readership and understand their audience
• Technically savvy; able to learn and utilize web/publishing tools

About Examiner.com

Sound interesting? Please visit our website to apply or learn more.

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