Grit Daily is hiring!
Want to join a pretty cool team that actually respects women and minorities, gives you credit for work that you do and feedback on improving, along with access to celebrities, events, and a record of your work? Look no further than Grit Daily and right here.
Let’s unpack that long first sentence a bit. (No, not the hiring sentence — since that’ one is self explanatory.)
Respecting women and minorities.
It’s pretty pathetic that women get treated like sh*t pretty much most of the time, still. One one hand, men in general talk sh*t behind women’s backs because the men are insecure. And on the other hand women — not always but sure as f*ck some times — tear each other down. It’s probably due to insecurity, but what do we know? We’re just journalists.
Anyway, minorities bear the brunt of it. I’ll tell you a story. Jordan (yes, the guy who founded Grit Daily and made robots that printed pizza for astronauts to eat in space) lives in a “black neighborhood” when he’s in the NY area. He has Airbnb guests all the time. Not all — but some — will say the neighborhood is “sketchy.” Inquiring minds want to know what that means. Often the answer from the guest is “well there was a black person…”
The point here is that people are so unaware of how, basically, racist they are. It carries over in to work places and it sure as hell isn’t limited to darker skinned people. Asians — especially if you have an “accent” — get trampled on. Stereotypes run absolutely rampant. Let’s just make a list while we’re f*cking at it: Native Americans, Indians (for sure), and no one knows where Pakistan is and especially Bangladesh. Brazilians get confused with Mexicans (serious people, wtf?) and then Venezuelans and Peruvians (both of which often make great writers) get shat on with an assumption that they’re uneducated when usually it’s the exact opposite. Cubans, too. Just throw them in the mix. Bezos, anyone? Wake up.
Where were we. Oh, so then Russians get a bad “rap” or “rep” if you’re a purist about definitions (where “rep” is just short for reputation before that word got bastardized). Jordan (yes that same Jordan) even knows a Russian (by birth) who sued Mark Zuckerberg personally for employment discrimination and then won.
We could just go on and on. Anyway, at Grit Daily — which has relatively green colors — doesn’t really care about what the f*ck you look like or if you’re an alien from some whatever planet.
What we do care about:
1. Are you awake?
2. Can you learn quickly?
3. Can you write?
4. Can you avoid making assumptions while writing or otherwise communicating?
5. Can you speak up if there’s some issue with… anything really?
6. We love ideas. Come with your ideas.
7. Self-starter / self initiative would be really nice. We hope we’re not asking too much.
What are we hiring for?
1. Brand partnerships lead
Grit Daily makes money off of a few things, two of those are events (ticketed and in some cases sponsored) and native adverting (which we call Branded Content). Let’s unpack that.
Media outlets generally try to break even (ie from a profitablity stand point) or better. In the Brand Partnerships lead gig you’ll be “selling” sponsorships on top of Grit Daily’s pretty damn awesome events.
You’ll also work with brands on Branded Content. Some people really just want to advertise — and that’s ok. It’s not news. And just like Thrillist and QZ — super reputable outlets — Grit Daily does native pieces from time to time and marks them responsibly.
Shoot us a note to apply. [email protected]
2. Staff writer
Grit Daily’s bread and butter is news writing. Grit Daily covers brands and how “we” (ie we people or aliens or whatever the reader is at this point) interact with them.
Staff writers cobble together 500-600 word articles with catchy titles and headlines and publish them. They write daily. This is a professional gig. $20/article. It is what it is and that’s what budget we have. At least we’re not assholes like Huffington Post was to its writing base. Everybody cool? Cool.
Shoot us a note to apply. [email protected]