Media Startup - Pop Culture Columnist
Want to help change how people interact with pop culture?
Quibbl is an interactive news feed where users bet on the outcomes of trending news stories for points: right answers give you a top spot on the leaderboard.
Other platforms encourage echo-chambers and viral low-credibility news, we challenge users to read the news and make thoughtful predictions about what’s going to happen next, incentivizing them seek new perspectives, apply critical thinking & understand diverse viewpoints.
We’re actually doing something about fake news.
After being recognized by Silicon Valley’s YCombinator as one of the top 100 startups out of 10,000+ applications, we launched in Spring 2017 (pre-Beta) - find us @ quibbl.me - and have quickly scaled up our user base and product capabilities. There’s work to do, but our initial user engagement metrics exceed Buzzfeed’s and tell us that we’ll become an important player in online media if we can keep building a team of passionate, creative people. If you’re someone interested in helping us create innovative ways to reach our ambitious goal of becoming a thought-provoking marketplace of ideas, then we need you on our team.
We’re looking for a writer to join our Entertainment staff as an intern. The Pop Culture Columnist Internship is an opportunity to cover the trending pop culture stories of the day as well as a particular area of focus you want to cover in depth. You’ll have the opportunity to own a key content area: help us create and shape Quibbl Music, Quibbl Movies or Quibbl Gossip. You’ll work closely with our Entertainment Editor to learn practical content creation skills and meet regularly with the rest of the staff, a team of young, talented writers spread all over the country from New York to California.
It takes all types of talent to build something like this from the ground up. We’re open to and actively looking for physicists, screenwriters, finance majors and historians: all educational backgrounds and experience levels are equally welcome to apply. Whatever you bring to the table, expect to learn a range of practical content production skills on the job. If being part of a team that builds something new and exciting from the ground up is something that interests you, then this is your opportunity. Those who have the drive & ability will see their role and responsibilities grow.
The Pop Culture Columnist Intern will be expected to contribute a minimum of 8-10 hours per week. Commitments beyond this can be discussed.
To apply, please send a very brief introduction and a short writing sample to bpurcell@u.northwestern.edu. We are currently seeking writers and will contact applicants on a rolling basis - apply ASAP!
Those interested in writing for Quibbl’s Sports & Politics teams or working with our Marketing & Social Media, Management or Tech teams are also encouraged to get in touch.