Looking for Neighborhood Correspondents
We want to try something new around here. It’s impossible for us to cover all of Brownstone and North Brooklyn as comprehensively as we’d like on our own, so we’d like to put in place a few stringers. As a stringer, you’d probably write anywhere from two to six posts a month about your ‘hood….
We want to try something new around here. It’s impossible for us to cover all of Brownstone and North Brooklyn as comprehensively as we’d like on our own, so we’d like to put in place a few stringers. As a stringer, you’d probably write anywhere from two to six posts a month about your ‘hood. The topical scope would be meat-and-potatoes Brownstoner fare: New buildings, new restaurant and store openings, new bike lanes, notable quality of life issues; we also might call on you occasionally to attend an important community board meeting or to grab a photo of something specific for us. You don’t need to have a professional writing background. You do need to be the kind of person who always has a camera on hand and is constantly attuned to what’s going on in the community; it also helps to have a couple of competitive bones in your body so we can beat other publications to the punch. You also need to be pretty darn sure that you’re going to stick with it, as it’s a big effort to get a new writer set up and trained. We’ve already got someone lined up for Ditmas Park but, as a start, would like to get correspondents for Park Slope, Bed Stuy and Williamsburg; if it works well, we’ll expand to other nabes as well. The pay will be $20 a post, since most of these posts are really just a photo and three or four sentences. If you’re interested, please email us at Brownstoner@Brownstoner.com with “[Neighborhood] Stringer” in the subject. Thanks.
What about Sunset Park? No one seems to care much for us here, but we’re 5th ave/South Slope 10 years ago.
How about a forum for union-bashing finance millionaires?
Oh for heavens sake, no problem!
Minard,
I apologize for misinterpreting your comment.
As you know there are unfair things said about Heights residents all the time.
If we have you defending us, I know we are in good hands.
Again, my mistake. I need a better sense of humor. Guess I’m just overly defensive.
“my first run-in with 11217 was on a thread where I lamented that a particuarly lovely rowhouse had been chopped up into many units. He launched into about eight consecutive posts saying that no one needed more than one room and one 60-watt lightbulb””
OMG, ROFL, I love that….Hahahahah….
Curmudgeon’s Corner? Just don’t go after Andy Rooney’s job after he retires, Benson. THAT one’s MY job.
Minard is a dead architect who is over 200 years old himself, don’t feel bad.
I object Benson, I was describing myself as an “unrepentant curmudgeon” in my Brownstoner profile long before you mentioned your “Curmudgeon’s Corner” idea 🙂
“I love Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights.
Posted by: Junkman007 at February 26, 2010 4:32 PM
Of course, the Heights has the best junk.