Content Writing

I am seeking an internet and social media savvy content / news writer to cover celebrity news, trending stories around the internet, viral stories + news and gossip stories. The ideal candidate, will be comfortable in a fast paced and ever changing habitat. Your job is to constantly keep up with the world news as it breaks, you must live and breathe all things trending, especially those that Gen-Y is most interested in. Responsibilities: - Scour the deepest and weirdest corners of the internet to find stories that has potential go viral. - Write stories so they are targeted to a Gen-Y audience. - Come up with ideas for posts with effective headlines aimed at sharing. - Observe around the web what is trending. Requirements: - You agree that the content does not infringe or violate someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law. - We own copyright of article once published on our site. - A great interest in celebrity news/gossip. - A strong understanding of world news, viral, and all trending issues. - Ability to discover and identify big stories, alongside, the ability to find clever, funny, and unique angles on them. - Ability to write both long, thought-provoking pieces and quicker riffs of the news. - Ability to spot trends and generate ideas for larger projects. Fluency with images, GIFs, video and other forms of multimedia. - Ability to write unique content so that people won’t feel like they are wasting their time reading it. - Ability to use emotion people love to look at content that engages them on both an intellectual and emotional level. Try taking up a point of view on a controversial topic in order get people emotionally invested in your writing. This is an ongoing job. I need 5 to 8 articles a day. 300 to 500 words per article.