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 Post subject: Cutting-edge publication - cliched, flabby want ad
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:46 pm 
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I'd be more optimistic about these folks "reinventing the moribund publishing industry" if their want ad didn't have a signal-to-noise ratio of about .0001 ....


Xconomy, an emerging network of blogs covering the business of innovation--and helping to reinvent the moribund publishing industry--seeks an enthusiastic, creative, versatile, knowledgeable journalist with impeccable writing skills to work with us in our flagship Boston site. This entry- to mid-level staff position will focus on the biotechnology and medical sectors, but qualified respondents will be able to write about anything we cover, from clean energy to information technology to venture capital. The ideal candidate will be a resourceful researcher, fearless interviewer, and swift writer with the chops to produce breaking news stories and longer features on a daily schedule. She or he will also possess a great team attitude and a sense of humor.

This position combines the best parts of working for a startup (ie, tons of opportunity to shape the publication's focus and to build equity in the company) with the best parts of working for an established company (ie, a competitive salary and benefits.) Title and salary will be based on experience.

Xconomy was founded by a world-class team of news and publishing professionals with years of experience at BusinessWeek, MIT's Technology Review, Science, Scientific American, IDG, and other leading publications. Our mission is to help create a new era of interactive, hyper-local journalism and become one of the world's most authoritative voices on business and innovation. Our standards are high, but so are the potential rewards.

To apply, please forward a cover letter, resume, and several clips or links to clips to jobs@xconomy.com.
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At least they're offering to pay the person they hire.
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"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."



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