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COLLEGE INTERN PROGRAM

City Weekly is currently unable to accept applications for its internship program. Student journalists interested in pitching their work for freelance publication should contact bwood@cityweekly.net

DRIVERS WANTED

For the Salt Lake area. Drivers must own their own vehicle and be available Wed and Thurs. Please contact Eric Granato egranato@cityweekly.net

JOIN OUR STREET TEAM

City Weekly's marketing department is looking to add a few members to our street team. If you enjoy going out to events, seeing shows, and parading around festivals, then you may be a fit for our team. The street team is an integral part of of the overall marketing and social media operations of City Weekly. The ideal candidate is sharp with an outgoing attitude willing to serve as an informed representative of City Weekly.

You will work with the Marketing and Events Director and fellow street team members to coordinate our presence at events and implement fun marketing campaigns. You'll be expected to attend concerts, festivals, and various exciting events happening around town.

This position is on a volunteer basis, paid with great fun and the opportunity to earn significant perks. The hours and time commitment are flexible. We want you to be out at events you will enjoy as often as possible!

Those who are interested should email their resume to Pete Saltas at pete@cityweekly.net and brief description of why you think you would be a great addition to the street team.

MULTIMEDIA ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Copperfield Media is seeking an energetic and self-motivated individual looking for a career in media sales. As part of the Copperfield team, you can build a career in an exciting industry, make money, have fun, and be a part of a company that makes a difference in our community.

Responsibilities include selling print, digital, and events to local and some national businesses. Brands you will represent include City Weekly, Devour Utah, Vamoose Utah, Best Of Utah, Vamoose Rendezvous, and Utah Beer Festival.

Why should you join our team?

Company culture: work hard, play hard mentality. It's a fun place to work and you can earn a great income if you are passionate, dedicated, motivated and willing to hustle. Salary + uncapped commission. We are understaffed and have a ton of leads for you. Incentives and regular sales contests. Employee discounts on restaurants, clubs, services, and travel! Applicants must have a valid driver’s license and a reliable vehicle.

INVITATION TO FREELANCE WRITERS

Like most alternative weeklies, City Weekly could not exist without the contributions of freelancers. Generally, freelancers are expected to pitch their own story ideas. Freelancers write cover features as well as arts and entertainment features. Word counts for the most commonly freelanced articles include:

Cover features: 2,500-3,500 words
Music articles: 650-800 words
Arts & Entertainment features: 800 words
Event previews: 180-270 words.

How to approach us with a story idea: First, ALWAYS send a query by email to bwood@cityweekly.net to see if we are interested in your idea. Unsolicited manuscripts will be considered at our discretion. We will not return any materials unless they are sent with an accompanying self-addressed stamped envelope. First-time contributors will be expected to submit a fully completed and publishable draft before any offer is made to purchase content for use by City Weekly and our editorial staff reserves the right to sever any purchase offer prior to publication.

Know Salt Lake City Weekly. Your chances of selling an article idea to us will be improved if you do your homework. Study our paper. Get a sense for the kind of articles we're looking for before sending in your query. Consider our readers, who want to read about local issues, people and places. Then tell us why your idea would be a great story for our paper, why you're the one to write it, and what kind of resources you will use to report the story. If it is your first time contacting us, include a résumé and three clippings (can be copies of clips and/or email links to publications that have your clips in their archives), as well as a daytime phone number.

Defend your story idea. Be prepared to answer questions we might have about your story idea, such as: Is it new, or at least a new angle on an old topic? Has it been written about locally and recently? Is it interesting, timely and appealing to our readers?

Spec submission. If you are an untested new writer, and we accept your story proposal, we are likely to ask you to submit your article on "spec" the first couple of times. That means that we will reserve the right not to publish the story if we feel it does not meet our standards and subsequent editing will not salvage it in a timely fashion.

Compensation. Contact Payment, including kill fees, vary and will be negotiated individually. We pay at the end of the month following the month of publication.

City Weekly buys first-time rights to your work, plus the right to post your work electronically on our copyrighted website. Subsequent publication by third-parties permitted only with the approval of City Weekly, and with the proviso that such publication appears with a credit line stating that your story first appeared in City Weekly. All terms of publication are spelled out in detail in our contributor's agreement, which you must sign and return to us before your work can be published.

INVITATION TO FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Salt Lake City Weekly is always interested in reaching out to freelance photographers. But the vast majority of our needs are news- and feature-related-that is, it is meant to illustrate a story. Art photography, while of aesthetic interest to us, is of little practical use.

To be considered as a news/feature photographer, send an e-mail to Derek Carlisle at dcarlisle@cityweekly.net. Include a résumé and no more than five representative samples of your photography in jpeg format at between 200 and 300 dpi. If we like what we see, we'll schedule a meeting to discuss the opportunity in more detail. All terms of publication are spelled out in detail in our contributor's agreement, which you must sign and return to us before your work can be published.