Freelance Writers - NIGHTLIFE: Examiner.com

Nightlife Insiders Wanted

Examiner.com, a Quantcast Top 100 website, is growing and looking for freelance content contributors (we call them “Examiners”) to share insights, knowledge and experience about local nightlife. It’s a great way to cover what you love and communicate what’s happening in your city.

Some hot topic titles we’re eager to fill in our Bars & Clubs category include:

• Budget Nightlife Examiner
• Club Scene Examiner
• Country & Western Bars Examiner
  
• Gay Nightlife Examiner
  
• Karaoke Bars Examiner
• Live Music Bar Scene Examiner
• Nightlife Events Examiner
• Nightlife Photography Examiner
• Sports Bars Examiner
  
• VIP Club Scene 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 Examiners in the channel are writing about:

Chicago Happy Hour Examiner
National Bartender Examiner
NY Nightlife 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).

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
• 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.

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/photographers
  
• 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 online and showcase your content on a site with over 14 million monthly unique visitors.

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

About Examiner.com

If Bars or Clubs aren't your passion, we have hundreds of other topics to cover within our 25 Channels:

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