Jobs

Nine hours? Fifty-five dollars cash? Reporter? Star Trek?! Huh?

From the always wishful Craiglist:

Reporter needed on Set Tomorrow! (Glendale)

Date: 2009-09-28, 10:54AM PDT

Reply to: gigs-vrjrn-1396531510@craigslist.org

Entertainment website needs a reporter to cover a story tomorrow on the set of a game show.

If you are a fan of "Star Trek", you'll love this one!

Please submit your availablity (sic) and contact info. You are allowed up to 3 guests who
will also receive cash payment.

This job requires you to be on-set from 12noon- 9pm

Pays $55 cash, plus $5 per blog post.

* Location: Glendale
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: $60

If anyone took this gig - please email us!

From the venerable Craigslist:

Female Journalists Needed ! (Hollywood)

Date: 2009-08-10, 4:23PM PDT

Reply to: gigs-juuaa-1316470624@craigslist.org

New entertainment website is currently hiring young female reporters ages 18-30 yrs old.

Our site reports on important set-news in Hollywood. Our reporters are seen on-camera and get their articles published on the web.

Pays $8 per hour, plus cash bonuses on scoops!

Requirements:
Please have some experience writing news-style stories, great personality, and be 18-30 yrs.

Please email a photo of yourself, and a writing sample to email above.

* Location: Hollywood
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: $8/hr + cash bonuses

Icky. Icky. Icky.

From the MB job board:

Publication or Company: RadarOnline.com

Industry: Internet/Online/New Media

Salary: Competitive

Benefits:401K/403B, Dental, Health

Job Duration: Full Time

Job Location: Los Angeles, CA USA

Job Requirements: Entertainment News Web site is seeking experienced reporters with a proven record of breaking news. If you have excellent contacts in the entertainment industry and the ability to beat all competition to reporting news and obtaining exclusives, you could be the right candidate for RadarOnline.com. Must be a self-starter who generates ideas for articles, can land celebrity interviews and know what moves to make to get fresh information on breaking stories. Staff position based in Los Angeles but will consider the right candidates in New York. Freelance positions are also available.

Please send resume with salary requirements to:

myrsumenyc@amilink.com

No like the subway, the Metro. The Metro is looking for a blogger and if you think we are going to make a texting crack...shame on you. You're horrible.

Publication or Company L.A. Metro

Industry Internet/Online/New Media, Public Relations

Job Duration Freelance/Project Basis

Job Location Los Angeles, CA USA

Job Requirements Requests for Proposals: Transportation Blogger

The Customer Communications department at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is seeking the services of a web savvy, experienced transportation reporter on a project basis to develop and maintain a Metro blog on our website, metro,net. The selected candidate will report, research, write, edit and post an ongoing blog about transportation issues.

Scope of Work:
The ideal candidate will be an experienced web reporter and/or blogger, and will have expertise and in-depth knowledge of transportation issues, particularly as related to Los Angeles County and Measure R. The selected candidate will produce news-driven, informative and engaging daily blog entries, stories and commentaries in an engaging, conversational tone. The intended audience includes Metros customers and potential customers, LA county taxpayers and stakeholders, and the online community. Content from the blog may be further developed and extended to other sections of the website.

Submittal Requirements:
Please provide the following information:

1. Statement of interest and qualifications
2. Web samples and work references
3. Proposed compensation structure

The top candidates will be invited for an interview with the hiring authority.

More information is here.

What would we do without Craigslist?

Actor needed for emotional role - One day high pay

My deceased aunt gave my two kids a Cocker Spaniel a few months back. The dog has been a terror and become overwhelming for me. I am a single father raising two young children. I cannot face telling the kids that the dog must go. I have found a good home for the dog, and just need someone to transport the dog, and play the villain.

Premise: You will be the dog walker hired by daddy (me) to walk Skittles. I will introduce you to the kids, and you will tell them you are going to help Skittles get her exercise when Daddy is too busy to walk her. At that point you will walk Skittles to your car and take her to her new family 20 minutes from my place. Then return holding just a leash. The story will be that Skittles broke free of the leash and took off. At this point prepare for crying, things being thrown at you, and possibly cursing. My kids are young and dramatic, their (sic) girls.

Pay will be $500. The job will take roughly 2 hours at best.

This job is ideal for an actor looking to diversify their role base, or someone who genuinely likes to make children cry. Acting experience is a plus, but not necessary. Please inform me of any prior experience in this kind of situation.

* Location: DC, MD, VA

Via Reddit

From Craigslist:

Room at the Top: Editor Wanted

Reply to:LAeditor@villagevoicemedia.com

Date: 2009-06-01, 3:09PM PDT

Village Voice Media is looking for a lead editor to continue the legacy of award-winning journalism at LA Weekly and expand its online presence.

We want an editor experienced in both news and features who has excellent management skills and can help staffers generate superior magazine-length stories. The ideal candidate will know and appreciate the city’s cultural life and how it appeals to LA Weekly readers. The interview process will include an editing test.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits. Qualified applicants should send, by mail or email, a cover letter, a resume and clips to:

Christine Brennan
Executive Managing Editor
P.O. Box 5970
Denver, CO 80217
or
LAeditor@villagevoicemedia.com

If there is an ad for food columnist. We're all doomed.

From our illustrious Mediabistro job board:

Publication or Company RadarOnline.com

Industry Internet/Online/New Media

Benefits 401K/403B, Dental, Health

Job Duration Full Time

Job Location Los Angeles, CA USA

Job Requirements
Entertainment News Web site is seeking experienced reporters with a proven record of breaking news. If you have excellent contacts in the entertainment industry and the ability to beat all competition to reporting news and obtaining exclusives, you could be the right candidate for RadarOnline.com. Must be a self-starter who generates ideas for articles, can land celebrity interviews and know what moves to make to get fresh information on breaking stories. Staff position based in Los Angeles but will consider the right candidates in New York. Freelance positions are also available.

Please send resume with salary requirements to:

myrsumenyc@amilink.com

Join the ranks of local LA bloggers. The few, the proud, the cranky.

Dakota Smith writes:

Curbed LA: Hiring!

Curbed LA is looking for a part-time blogger to contribute roughly three posts a day to the site. Candidate must have an obsession with neighborhood news, and would feel comfortable doing the following: Writing posts, digging through city documents, attending neighborhood council meetings, watching architecture trends, and understanding the laws and policies that shape LA's urban landscape. Reporting background a plus. Money is not life changing; glory and fame are. If interested, send resume and 3-6 sample posts to dakota@curbed.com.

Since there have been thousands of jobs lost in the newspaper industry and plenty other jobs being cut back or gigs just silently going away, we've noticed writers answering crappy ads on Craigslist, calling out the original posters.

For example, the ad "Writers wanted ~ Freelance (only in LA)" drew the ire of this math savvy scribe:

So they want 650 word articles for 10 bucks (a little more than one page) And they also offer, to 'eligible writers', the opportunity to write 2300 word articles, for a compensation of 30 bucks. (about 4 pages) So they offer THREE times more pay than the 650 word gig. So let's see - 650 x 3 = 1950 words. Wait a minute! Why would I write a '2300 word' article for 30 bucks, when I could just write THREE '650 word articles' and get paid the same and not even have to work as hard?? Keeping with the trend: Do you offer a 10,000 word article at $40 dollars? Perhaps a 20,000 one at $45 ?

This is our favorite today:

Re: Writer needed to write one women show (Culver City)

Reply to: gigs-fbkys-1079767165@craigslist.org

Let's see... this poster will pay a generous $100 for the successful responder to write a one-woman show. She has been working on it for a year but "hasn't gotten very far." AND she wants all rights for her same $100!

I suggest you answer her with your true reactions, and let her think about it some, as I am about to do. Then I will flag it as EVIL!

David Leonhardt writes in the NYTimes about the recession and the loss of jobs:

If the Great Recession, as some have called it, has a capital city, it is El Centro, Calif., due east of San Diego, in the desert of California's Inland Valley. El Centro has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, a depressionlike 22.6 percent.

Click here for the fascinating interactive map.

Is saying Los Angeles has a 9.5% unemployment rate misleading? If you make your nut on gigs and freelance assignments - you don't show up in these statistics. Is the LA unemployment rate higher?