City Bloggers / Editors for Blog Network & Guidebooks

October 13, 2008 by Jodee  
Filed under Writing Gigs


Are you a blogger with ambitions to be a published writer?

The Bloggers Guide (http://www.thebloggersguide.com/about) is seeking bloggers to write city blogs online and edit the corresponding published city guidebooks.

We will consider applications from any world capital city but we are immediately seeking editors for the following cities:

Europe

  • London
  • Paris
  • Berlin
  • Barcelona
  • Rome

North America

  • New York
  • Boston
  • Miami
  • Los Angeles
  • San Francisco
  • Vancouver
  • Toronto

Rest of World:

  • Melbourne
  • Sydney
  • Cape Town

Requirements:

Writing blog posts about their cities that fall into one of a number of categories: eg, Daily Life, What’s On, Top Tips etc etc.

Sourcing the best external posts and blogs about the city from the blogosphere, and including them in the directory and “Posts to Promote” section.

Organizing the best blog posts from both in-house and external blogs into a structured format for offline publication (templates and page plans are provided)

Writing introduction and other short articles for publication in the offline guidebooks.

Payment:

Is threefold:

  • Payment per post written on thebloggersguide.com
  • Fixed fee for editing the offline guidebook
  • A further % royalty from the offline guidebook sales.

Apply:

For full details please email editor@thebloggersguide.com with:

The name of the city you are applying for.

Links to blogs and posts written by you – they do not necessarily have to be about your city, it is your writing style and observation we are looking for.

Links to the three best city blogs you know of about your city. (See http://directory.thebloggersguide.com for examples of what we are looking for)

The five best blog posts about your city – they do not have to be from a city blog, they just have to show the reader something interesting about the city.

For examples of the type of posts to consider see:

http://www.thebloggersguide.com/reykjavik/swimming-iceland

http://www.thebloggersguide.com/paris/getting-your-culture-free

http://www.thebloggersguide.com/paris/how-be-mistaken-a-parisian

http://www.thebloggersguide.com/melbourne/speaking-australian-part-three-%E2%80%93-socializing

http://www.thebloggersguide.com/dublin/the-language-dublin

http://redwhiteandbleu.blogspot.com/2008/09/lost-in-translation.html

http://bitchtours.blogspot.com/2008/09/worst-of-buenos-aires-why-not.html

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