Seeking Journalists / Writers / Content Creators

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Description

Over the last five years, Nexus Mods has cemented itself as one of the top video game sites in the world. Currently, we are in the top 1000 global website's (Alexa rank) and are home to over 12 million passionate users with an average unique daily audience of 400,000. Nexus Mods has a strong and loyal community of users that visit the site to upload and download mod files, chat within the forum and share images and videos. We are now looking to add content that will enhance our community's experience when visiting the site, increasing traffic and page view times through the addition of interesting articles, videos and news.

Paid Content Creators

As well as having published work and an in-depth knowledge of the gaming world, our preferred candidates will be able to commit to providing compelling content for both weekly and monthly articles.

All applicants must be 18 or above.

Typical responsibilities will be:

  • generating ideas for future stories and features that would interest the site's community.
  • researching features and articles, verifying information and interviewing sources.
  • writing, editing, proofreading copy to ensure a high-quality final submission.
  • conducting interviews with people and companies within the industry, for both existing and future game developments.
  • working to deadlines to ensure content gets delivered on time.
  • creating well researched, interesting and engaging content that is SEO focused.
  • researching and following up on ideas provided by the Nexus Mods team and community

Working with our community team on a paid freelance basis (to be negotiated), you will need to have previous game journalism experience with published articles, videos or podcasts. All applications should be submitted to the email address below with the subject "Freelance Journalist Positions" and include the following information:

  • Your availability, previous experience and rough article costs.
  • CV/Resume.
  • Links to any published work.

Volunteer Content Creators

If you don't have any published work that you can provide, but still want an opportunity to have your work seen by potentially millions of people then still feel free to get in touch.

Nexus Mods is a community that thrives together because we all share a common interest - gaming, or to be more precise, moddable games. We are creative people at our core, and we here at Nexus Mods would love to tap into some of this creative talent and maybe give you a break into journalism.

We're not asking for Shakespeare length pieces, nor are we asking for you to commit yourself to writing for us 5, 3, or even 1 day a week. Just as you find the time and when you can.

All we would like is that you have a solid grasp of grammar, spelling and punctuation (a sense of humour will also help).

If you submit an idea for content, and we like it, we'll get in touch and say "Hey, this is definitely something we would like you to pursue," if it's something that we don't feel we can use then we'll reply and say "Sorry, this isn't what we're looking for at the moment" and explain why maybe it needs tweaking or a small rewrite.

We want to deliver quality content to our community, things that they would find interesting, entertaining, engaging or even something like a tutorial series.

All applicants must be 18 or above.

If I'm successful, what would you need?

It's pretty simple; we would like original (non-plagiarized, borrowed or re-written) work that is between approximately 800 and 1500 words. The work needs to be well researched, well written and engaging. Sources will need to be provided for any quotes, facts or statistics that are used within the article, and that's it.

Don't worry about images (unless they are to assist with the article and come from a legitimate and copyright free source), as we can source these ourselves.

If you are still interested, then please get in touch with us via email.

Please make the subject: "Volunteer Content Positions" and send it to the email address below with the following details:

  • Your availability and if you have any previous experience.
  • CV/Resume.
  • A brief word article on a gaming subject of your choice.
Start date
ASAP
From
Nexus Mods
Published at
13.02.2017
Contact person:
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Project ID:
1287168
Contract type
Freelance
Workplace
100 % remote
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