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Read This Craigslist Ad to Get What It's Like to Talk to Someone on Coke
“Hi, I am a reality show producer looking for an assistant for a Real Superman Show.” Simple, yes? No. This is “high concept” metaphysical stuff, and you, potential assistant, need to grasp the tenuous connection between phenomenal celebreality and literary fiction, so please bear with this producer for 5,500 words.
Gawker Is Looking for Interns
Are you a total news junkie? Do you know Gawker's voice inside and out? Would you willingly—and more importantly, would you happily—spend hours glued to a computer screen scouring the internet for the newsworthy and noteworthy?
Help Wanted
We're looking for an incredibly talented writer to help us here at Gawker on a freelance, part-time basis. Fit the bill? Email a brief note with links to your work to remy@gawker.com and we'll be in touch if we're interested.
Gawker is Seeking New Video Interns
Do you fancy yourself a pop culture aficionado? Can you stomach watching daytime television trash, 24-hour news networks, reality programming, or any combination of the three? Do you have enough willpower to keep your eyes glued to a television screen for hours at a time?
Joran Van der Sloot Needs a New Lawyer (Update: Hold Your Resumes)
The suspect in the Natalee Holloway murder, Joran Van der Sloot, is looking for a new defense attorney after his Peruvian lawyer quit the case out of fear for his life: "I'm an older person. This isn't for me."
MTV Is Looking for Its First Twitter Jockey
When people complain about technology ruining our culture (TV making us illiterate, the internet shortening attention spans) their fears are generally misplaced. Until now. MTV is hunting for its new version of the VJ, the TJ or Twitter Jockey.
40,000 Sex Workers Will Flood South Africa for the World Cup
Prostitutes are the new carnies. South African authorities estimate 40,000 sex workers from the Congo, Russia, and beyond will make pilgrimages to their nation to get rich servicing soccer fans. Sex tourism: Now, the hookers come to you. [GlobalPost]
Gawker Creative Services Is Hiring
The folks at Gawker Creative Services — the ones responsible for the little sponsored posts that run on the front page from time to time — is hiring. Read on if you're interested.
New York Times Seeking Reporter for Private School Beat
New York Times Metro section editor Joe Sexton is "looking for a tiger," according to a job posting passed along by a tipster. No, not that kind of tiger. More like a Dalton Tiger!
Intern Wanted
Gawker Media's advertising team seeks an HTML-savvy, Excel-tolerant, Photoshop-friendly Intern who will lug their laptop to the NY office each day to perform entry level feats of data entry, ad banner banging, spreadsheeting, and maybe code contortionism. The marketing industry calls this 'trafficking.' We call it…
Courtney Loves Seeks Housekeeper, Documentarist for Safe, Sane, Consentual Employment
Nutty and strangely adorable Courtney Love has job opportunities for you! First, she's seeking someone honest to clean up after her. "i need a non thieving non freaky housekeeper," she writes on her MySpace page. But the candidate doesn't have to be entirely "non freaky" she clarifies: "is anyone insanely clean…
Vh1's Biggest Celebreality Star Desperately Seeks Manager, Pooper Scooper
While you might not recognize the name Tiffany Pollard, anyone who has followed Vh1's Celebreality franchises over the last three years certainly knows the name New York. After getting rebuffed by Flavor Flav on the first two installments of the gloriously trashy Flavor Of Love series, she became one of cable…
Laid Off? Move to Singapore!
The following email was sent by the deputy editor of The Straits Times, an English language newspaper in the only growing market for print papers left: Asia. Singapore, specifically. The editor would like to know if maybe anyone who is going to get laid off from the New York Times would like to go work in a country…
The oldest blogger pay structure of all
"Words Without Borders, an online magazine for literature in translation, is looking for writers with a distinctive voice and point of view to blog literary festivals, readings around town, and international literary and translation news. Literary bent, reliability, a good grasp of grammar, and global cosmopolitan…
Our former advertising columnist Mark Duffy is looking for a new home! He will take his column to the highest bidder. He would prefer outlets that would let him swear more than we have—and that haven't become, in his words, as "boring as piss," like Gawker! [Copyranter]
Valleywag wants to pay you to watch TV
It may well be the second-worst job in the Valley after screening YouTube videos for copyrighted content. But we suspect that one of you twisted sorts reading this might actually enjoy this gig. Valleywag is looking for a video producer. Part of the job is sitting on your couch watching TV clips; part of it is getting…
The Search for Defamer's Next Top Guerrilla Videographer
Do you have a camera, editing skills, balls (we speak figuratively, of course, as we're an ovary-positive shop), and a total disregard for either your professional reputation of your personal safety? If you answered affirmatively to most of the items in that list, you may have a place on the Defamer team. We're…
We need a summer intern or two for some research-intensive data-gathering projects. Inquire within. Also, wouldn't turn down a couple junior reporter types either. Non-traditional (cough non-Ivy) applicants encouraged, all welcome.
We need a party photographer tonight. Ours is in Belgrade. Email josh@gawker.com.
