Company: DFW.com (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Position: Wanted: Freelance entertainment and lifestyle writers
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Job Status: Freelance
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: April 10, 2009
Job ID: 1029031
Description:
Are you an expert in food, fashion or the local entertainment scene? Do you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and hang out at the coolest places alongside the hippest people?
DFW.com, a Web site and weekly print magazine that covers entertainment, nightlife, dining and style in the Mextroplex, is looking for talented freelancers who can share their passion and personality with our readers. We want writers with original ideas who can offer a unique take on familiar topics and who can guide readers to the best-kept secrets of the city.
Our ideal freelancers know the Dallas-Fort Worth market intimiately and are comfortable writing for and about the 18-to-35-year-olds who eat out, set trends, make a difference and have fun. We are particularly seeking out specialists in dining, fashion and environmental topics (our publication aims not just to tell readers how to spend their disposable income, but also how to make an impact on the world). If you are boring, unreliable or impossible to get along with, please do not apply.
Interested? Please e-mail three of your sharpest stories ideas and three of your best writing samples to Christopher Kelly, Entertainment Editor, cmkelly@dfw.com. No phone calls please.
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15 comments:
Someone needs to take out a Radio ad telling people what they are up too.
Freelance, the MNI version of hiring Blackwater mercenaries, a practice, in another context, they would of course not support.
This is likely for their "weekly" free mag like Kansas City's Ink.
The next time you read a McClatchy newspaper editorial page complain about "greed" from some other company, remember this.
Firing their writers, then offering them "freelance" work at a fraction of the pay with no benefits... that shows real class.
But be contented when that fell arrest,
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review,
The very part was consecrate to thee,
The earth can have but earth, which is his due,
My spirit is thine the better part of me,
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead,
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered,
The worth of that, is that which it contains,
And that is this, and this with thee remains.
Who knows the truth about what's really happening at the S-T on these two points?
1. Some people say that publisher Wortel wanted to cut more than 130 jobs but was overruled by McClatchy and that his plan to cut the paper from 5 sections to 3 was also overruled; others say it was Wortel who bucked McClatchey on the cutbacks and limited the damage.
2.Word has it that certain S-T execs got year-end bonuses in 2008 even after the wage freeze was implemented for everyone else. Is this true? If so, who got them and for how much?
The poet is back...Sheesh
As someone about to be laid off from the S-T, it hurt to see that ad for freelancers.
It really did. They could have at least waited till some of us have finished out our time.
Week 6, Jim "Oops" Witt resignation watch: You mean the overpaid and underworked Witt got a bonus just a few months before he cuts another 130 workers and cuts the salaries of workers getting as low as $25K? McClatchey ethics and mismanagement at its worst. Pathetic. Do the honorable thing, Elvis. Resign
Not to worry MNI I got your six!
In British fashion visualize a day when there are two major newspapers that service say California, one from the right, the other the left.
Then there would be one like The Guardian (hear MNI)to serve the Trotskyites and Anarchists, and one like the Sun to serve the sex starved and Hollywood morons.
It's pathetic. I was laid off in June from the Star-Telegram and told I could freelance after the first of the year. Never pursued it, but yes, that's how McC operates.
Here's what is pathetic-
"Please e-mail three of your sharpest stories ideas"
Turning a cattle call for freelancers into an idea gathering operation. I hope every one of those freelancers has the sense to register the copyright of their written treatments with the Library of Congress.
Oh, and that guy needs a grammar lesson
i bet they don't pay what blackwater paid. but hey, if they do, would someone please post. i'll gladly move to fort worth.
Congrats, Jim Witt. A top 10 list that you can be proud of:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090309/us_time/08599188378500
Not only does this memo writer need a grammar lesson. He needs to stop kissing Jim Witt's behind.
They're trying to reach hip young people with ... a new print publication! Genius. And I love the idea of dining coverage, for instance, tailored for 18- to 35-year-olds. Chili's, here we come!
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