Freelance Authors create the preponderance of regular content on our sites. Each Site Editor maintains their own editorial masthead, but cannot create a successful site without multiple committed, passionate authors contributing to its voice. At any given time, an Editor may maintain as many regular Freelance Authors (as opposed to Guest Contributors) as they feel is appropriate for their site and its niche, and may hire or demote authors at monthly intervals as necessary. As such, a paid Author role is generally reserved for regular daily or at most weekly commitments.

This arrangement is generally best suited to:

• professional (and aspiring) freelance journalists
• refugees from old media
• under-employed topic experts
• hyper-passionate fully-employed topic experts
• engaging observers, pundits, and philosophers

Freelance Author Guidelines and Benefits

Responsibilities

• Constantly strive to create passionate discussion about important issues through your writing
• Moderate comments on your work
• Know your readership
• Share best practices with editorial team
• Adhere to network and editor standards
• Adhere to minimum editorial and formatting standards
• not be republished verbatim, but may be referenced, remixed, expanded upon, and quoted liberally. (View our content license.)

• Posts must be original (or, more accurately, non-duplicate) pieces written for one (or more, over time) of Important Media’s sites.
• Posts must be non-promotional by their nature, but advocacy is fine. [real blogging, with some writing mixed in]

• A promotional link with your byline, and author page with an extended bio.
• A simple account and login, and an editor will not review your posts (after clearing you) before publishing, on and agreed-upon schedule or ad hoc basis.
• Tips, tricks, and training  guidelines for using our WordPressL CMSL and makin the most of your blogging experience with Important Media.
• There is a basic independent contract to sign, but as a freelancer, you can start and stop publishing at any time as your motivations dictate, at each Site Editor’s discretion.

This sounds awesome. How do I apply?

Please fill out our editorial application, indicating your interest as a Freelance Author.