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The BuzzFeed Viral Fellowship is a year-long program for aspiring and hungry writers eager to hone their skills, and to learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to consistently create content that captures readers’ attention, pushes the cultural conversation forward, and reaches a massive audience.
Opportunity Details
The BuzzFeed Viral Fellowship is a year-long program for aspiring and hungry writers eager to hone their skills, and to learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to consistently create content that captures readers’ attention, pushes the cultural conversation forward, and reaches a massive audience.
BuzzFeed is both a tech and a media company and we’ve long used audience data and trend insights to publish widely shared articles that surprise and delight people. The Viral Fellowship is a chance to be part of this hugely analytical and creative practice. You’ll learn — and learn to get obsessed — with how content is packaged and how to keep finding huge audiences.
Fellows need a strong grasp of the nuanced cultural conversations happening all over the internet and should be excited about contributing to those conversations. We’re looking for people who are fascinated by social media, human psychology, and trends of all kinds. On any given day, you might be researching behind-the-scenes facts and Easter eggs about a trending piece of pop culture, curating the funniest content from around the web, or reporting on the trending topic of the day.
Fellows will work with and learn from members of the BuzzFeed team — some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, and most viral creators out there. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media. You won’t be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else’s interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, and writing dozens of stories that will be published to BuzzFeed.com and promoted across our social channels.
This is a paid position (starting at $20/hour). The Fellowship allows for candidates to work fully remote in select locations. If you’re local to NY or LA, there will also be opportunities to work alongside us in our Times Square or Hollywood offices.
The Fellowship is fun and inspiring, but also fast-paced and challenging. You’ll be expected to meet goals related to output and article performance, with additional bonus compensation based on exceeding given success benchmarks.
We're looking for culture and internet obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending, and talking about. You should also have:
In addition, you should demonstrate the following:
Please submit the following when applying to be an Editorial Fellow:
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