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Join the AltDaily Team

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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm

We really want to make this AltDaily thing work.

hey.

hey.

But we’re going to need help.

This poor girl working in her bathrobe can’t do it all, right?

So far we’ve gotten amazing support from the journalistic/writerly/activist community. We couldn’t be more proud of our content. Will it get better as we grow? Of course. But how good it is now is a testament to local people’s intelligence, passion, and devotion to causes greater than the self.. Thank you now, again, and always, writers.

For this to be a sustainable project, though, we need to take a giant leap on the business side of things. That’s why we’re looking for:

Sales Associates

Smart, fun, presentable self-starters to work as AltDaily sales associates. We want to find a sales associate for each neighborhood of the seven cities. (For example: Ghent, Hilltop, Downtown, Old Towne…). This is a totally part-time, commission-based job, something that we’d envision the person doing for something like 5 to 10 concentrated hours a week.

Why You Want To Do This

  • You make a sale, you get a commission every month for the life of the contract.
  • Selling is something greater when you believe in it. If you like what AltDaily is doing, by selling ads you’re furthering our cause.
  • We love you.

If you’re interested, email your resume and cover letter to hannah@altdaily.com.

We are also looking for…

Editorial/Marketing Interns

There are a million little tasks that go into editing and publishing a website, and we need some help with them. Our ideal intern is someone who is intelligent and active, but more importantly someone who wants to learn. We are looking for someone to work side-by-side with us for three hours a week (probably one morning a week) and a couple hours from home.

Our interns do real and important work. They learn the business. They grow.

If you’re interested, email a paragraph about yourself, a paragraph about your local passions, and a paragraph about what you bring to the table to jesse@altdaily.com.

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ABOUT THE WRITER
Jesse is the editor in chief of AltDaily, and he's going to take this bio seriously, but not so seriously that he's going to continue in the third person. I've been involved with a bunch of local projects and civic groups in various roles, including: Hampton Roads, The Canvas; Art | Everywhere, Street Performance in Norfolk; Survive Norfolk; Hampton Roads Pride/Out in the Park; Bike Norfolk; re:Vision Norfolk, and such. I originally came to Norfolk as a Perry Morgan fellow in ODU's creative writing program. Before that I bummed around quite a bit, writing stacks of books that never got published, hitchhiking, couchsurfing, riding the Greyhound up down and back across this country. Some of my favorite jobs and volunteer gigs have included working on organic farms in Ireland; being first mate on an old sail boat in Holland; working at a long-term home for young men in South Africa; being a journalist and high school teacher in New York and California; washing dishes in Yosemite National Park; teaching English in DC and swimming in Florida; and interning at ESPN in Bristol, which was much less cool that you'd want it to be. My career highlights have been having three of my op-eds run in the New York Times, and being the executive producer of a six-part docu-drama on BET. Because school is cool I have three master's degrees (ODU for MFA, NYU for magazine journalism, University of Connecticut for secondary English education). I live in Norfolk because I believe in its potential. Email your ideas or nicely couched criticism to jesse@altdaily.com.
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