It's time to add to our team of New York City bloggers! We're looking for two people who can help us blog the home design scene in New York. Candidates should be design enthusiasts who want to help people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy.
We're wrapping up the search tonight, so get your applications in before midnight tonight!
Interested? Read on.....
Responsibilities include 2-3 daily posts that help us cover the amazing home design scene of NYC. This includes house tours, shop reviews, product reviews, interviews and random home design news that tie into our mission.
Both positions are part-time, freelance positions, and pay is on a per-post basis. It's great (but not required) if your other gigs plug you in to the design scene in some way (we love enthusiasts).
You need:
- a good eye for design
- strong blog-style writing skills
- a good computer
- a totally reliable high speed connection
- a digital camera and excellent photography skills
- Photoshop (or equivalent)
- knowledge of how to use all these things
Deadline: Tuesday, August 12th — 11:59pm
Submit:
- Your name
- Where you live
- How long you have been reading AT
- What you do full time
- 3 sample posts with great pics (good photos are very important!) that would be excellent ATNY posts — a. one local shop b. one product c. post of your choice (dazzle us). Keep each post 100-200 words max. Please submit posts written specifically for Apartment Therapy and not for another blog. Look to Apartment Therapy NY for the general style and format of posts for submission.
Send to: maxwellat4 (at) gmail (dot) com please put "NY BLOGGER SEARCH" in the subject header.
We will confirm your email and then review the submissions, asking our top choices to try out posting.
If I might ask, with all the new bloggers, when are plans to update the "Team" page? Do all of the ones listed still post?
view K T G's profile
Please add an AT Canada blogger soon. We can't get a lot of the products you talk about. Montreal has no West Elm, no Target, no Pottery Barn, etc., and many on-line sites aren't available to us. We could really use some posts with suppliers we can actually buy from.
view Lisa Hunter (Montreal)'s profile
Lisa-
We are on it!
Regina (who wrote for AT:NY until last wek) just relocated to Montreal and will begin blogging tomorrow on AT:Chicago. Additionally, we plan to do a search for a writer from Toronto at AT:Chicago in the early fall.
view janel's profile
Lisa, in the meantime check out http://stylenorth.ca/
view ChrisToronto's profile
How about AT Hawaii? Some island style inspiration might just give your eyes a vacation everyday :)
view angelpoo's profile
What about a UK AT? We're missing out on so much over here!
view DottyMoo's profile
While we're at it, how about a Philadelphia blogger? i love reading about the other cities, but wish someone'd feature some of the great local shops, events, sales, etc happening here.
view Bobbycat5's profile
while we are asking for more blogs....how about another in the south - we in Louisiana have tons to offer in the capital city....i'd do it!!!
view murray's profile
I second a New Orleans outpost. There is style for miles here.
view vjm's profile
We need a Minneapolis post - as you can see from the great stuff we have recently seen from MN
view parrishnut's profile
*UK FT, no?
view amt230's profile
I second Bobbycat re: a Philadelphia blogger. There are so many resources in this city and tons of sales and events. We may be smaller than New York or Chicago, but we have just as much style.
view suzy8track's profile
I fail to see why there is a need for another New York City blogger when there is an entire world outside of the chosen AT cities. With the recent rash of duplicate posts, and the seeming refusal of the AT staff to branch out of their home regions, this site looks less and less like a style and decor reference and more like a high school clique, constantly self-referencing their own "coolness."
view RQinGeorgia's profile
2-3 post daily of the amazing NYC home design scene, [not screened for duplication or quality or typos or bad grammar or clichés or indications of cluelessness.]
view K T G's profile
If y'all ever do the Virginia scene, I'd love to apply. But NYC is WAAAAAAY out of my territory.
view madampince's profile
Umm I agree, I have mad love for Apartment Therapy, but would much rather see a new city added *ahem* Atlanta?
view atlantadesigner's profile
Mercy! I haven't been a daily reader for very long, few months maybe, but I get the sense AT is relatively fledgling and still working out the kinks? I am a little perplexed at the constantly expanding staff and dizzying rate of growth. Please, I love the geographically diverse coverage, but EDIT, EDIT, EDIT! More is not always better, see precedent: case of quality v quantity. Like anyone else who stops in at the end of the day can attest, you can't even get through an entire day's worth of posts before reaching archives. That's right, TODAY'S posts are ARCHIVES. Am I the only one who thinks this is completely luda? It's too much! Hit the brakes!
view little ribbons's profile
I find that when I do run into very recently posted items being archives, that they will still be easily accessed on different cities' site. It looks like they want us to read 4 whole Apartment Therapy brand blogs (in addition to their 3 other narrow genre blogs - parenting, technology, and environmentalism) per day to keep up or sacrifice ... Los Angeles? I can't decide which one has the weakest posts and the most enthusiasm for lame things posted already in another city. Chicago is not my city, but I feel that it's got the strongestness. San Francisco is also not my city, but I like the posts better than New York (Boston is actually my city). I don't see a big call for dividing this blog into cities, because we don't find out much about those cities. Scavenger Hunt and a few stores. Home Tours are everyone's business. Stuff you found on the internet to show us, from someone else's blog, even or IKEA catalog, isn't exactly spanning the globe to give us information we didn't already have.
I'd still like to see the "Team" page updated. I don't recall some of those posters contributing in a while (don't want to name, for I could be wrong), and the newer members aren't listed yet. While you're at it, re-examine the Mission and see if you are on the right track. As one of my bosses would say: THNAKS!!!!!!
view K T G's profile
would still love a louisiana poster....that could hit all of the south....new orleans and baton rouge have tons to offer....
i'm an atty but i'd find time to do it!!!
view murray's profile
Darn - I would have loved to have given this a shot. But as it's 9:30 at night and I still haven't even gotten my kid in bed, I don't see myself meeting that deadline.
I'll miss your NY posts Regina!
view greer's profile
It would be nice to have people covering not only NYC but the surrounding region. The New York design scene doesn't just end at the Hudson River or Cross Island Parkway, there are also lots of events, etc. going on in the region that deserve coverage.
view John H's profile
I second the comment about the crazy amount of posting. I subscribed to the "main" RSS feed in order to get all the house tours ... but that proved too much, and I scaled back by creating a Yahoo pipe feed page just for house tours.
Ahh, much better.
view cevec's profile