Writer / Photographer – Ann Arbor & Aurora: Examiner.com

Are you a local insider?
Share what you know.

Examiner.com, a Quantcast Top 100 website and the insider source for everything local, is now in your city! We seek freelance content contributors (we call them “Examiners”) to share local insights, knowledge and experience. Unlike traditional blog sites, our talented writers and photographers are local insiders focused on providing useful information to the community. As an Examiner, you will have your own page on the Examiner.com website, complete with bio and photo, to showcase your articles about a specific topic in your area of expertise.

What is an Examiner?

• Credible, passionate, and knowledgeable writers and subject matter insiders who contribute unique and original content to entertain, inform, and inspire their readers
  
• Photographers who provide captivating images and slideshows for their audience
  
• Local insiders and influencers who provide reliable intelligence and resources on local and category-specific topics
• Active within their communities
• Most Examiners have full time or part time jobs and come from all walks of life and professions, including Pulitzer nominees and professional journalists, college students, civil servants, retirees, musicians, magazine editors, stay-at-home parents or PhDs.
  

The talented people we’re looking for can provide their local community with interesting and helpful information in one of the following channel categories:

Arts & Entertainment
Bars & Clubs
Business & Finance
Careers & Workplace
Education & Schools
Family & Parenting
Fitness & Weight Loss
Food & Drink
Gadgets & Technology
Games & Hobbies
Health
Home & Living
Neighborhoods
News
Pets
Politics
Recreation
Relationships
Religion & Spirituality
Restaurants
Society & Culture
Sports
Style & Fashion
Transportation
Travel

There are several topics to choose from within each channel, or, you can propose your own topic to write about!

Click on the following to get an idea of what current Examiners are covering:
Jefferson Adams – SF Health News Examiner
Dean Rotbart – Denver Business Commentary Examiner
Seth Smigelski – LA Outdoor Recreation Examiner
Clay Williams - NY Nightlife Photography Examiner

Examiners often become the "go-to" people in their topics and have appeared on local, national, and international media, including The Today Show, NPR, E!, CNN, Fox Sports, ESPN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and other television, radio and print after writing articles for Examiner.com. A couple examples of our National Examiners include bestselling author John Gray (National Mars Venus Relationships Examiner) and celebrity reporter Robin Leach (National Luxe Life Examiner).

Why Become an Examiner?

• As an independent contractor, work freelance and telecommute on your own schedule
  
• Build your audience and enhance your resume
  
• Creative freedom to choose what to cover within your selected topic
  
• Enjoy ancillary perks of being the “go to” expert on your topic
  
• We provide the platform, promotion, training, tools and an exclusive networking system to connect with other writers
  
• Competitive pay based on standard internet variables including page views, unique visitors, session length, and advertising performance, so your income grows as your readership grows
  
• Additional income opportunities through incentive programs such as the Examiner Referral Program
• Join the largest team of vetted content contributors on the web, and a website with over 14 million unique monthly visitors
  

Although this is not a "quit your day job" kind of opportunity, Examiners can definitely earn some extra cash while gaining exposure through their writing and growing their online presence.

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 three to four brief articles per week depending on the topic
  
• Desire to build their readership, understand their audience, and be the expert
  
• Technically savvy; able to learn and utilize web/publishing tools

Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com is the insider source for everything local, offering a rich mix of hyper-local and globally-relevant content. We have presence in most U.S. cities, thousands of towns and neighborhoods, and are developing a strong presence in international markets including Canada, the U.K., the Philippines and Australia. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Media Group, and is wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver based investment company whose broad array of assets include NowPublic; AEG and other live sports and entertainment; print and digital media; hospitality; film production and exhibition; wind energy development and transmission; as well as ranching and oil/gas exploration. We have the largest team of vetted content contributors online, and continue to grow at an exponential rate!

Sound interesting? To apply now or to find out more, please click here.

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