Writer / Photographer – Birmingham & Huntsville: Examiner.com

Experts wanted.
Write what you know.

Examiner.com, a Quantcast Top 100 website, is growing and looking for freelance content contributors (we call them “Examiners”) to share local insights, knowledge and experience. It’s a great way to get a jump start on establishing yourself as an expert in the topic you are most passionate about by publishing articles on one of the fastest growing websites.

What is an Examiner?

• Credible, passionate, and knowledgeable writers and subject matter experts 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 & Culture
News
Pets
Politics
Recreation
Relationships
Religion & Spirituality
Restaurants
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
Micah Beree - NY Restaurant 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?

• Work freelance & 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

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. Website visitors are geo-targeted to their closest market, with over 18 million monthly unique visitors expected by the end of 2009. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Media Group, and is wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, one of the largest media investment companies in the world. We currently have over 12,000 Examiners, 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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