Investigative Journalist (Disguised as a Publicist)
About The Media Whisperer The Media Whisperer was founded five years ago by the investigative journalist Michael Simonson after he realized he could leverage his research and writing skills to drum up media coverage for prospective clients. We have since secured hundreds of full-length articles, TV segments and podcast interviews for our clients in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, CBS Mornings (and CBS Sunday Morning), CNBC, and dozens of other mainstream outlets. Among the media placements we are most proud of was a TV segment on New York's ABC News for our client fighting State Farm over an insurance reimbursement denial that made it impossible for them to rebuild their fire-destroyed home; as a result of ABC's coverage, State Farm agreed to increase its insurance payout by close to six-figures. More recently, we have placed articles for our clients highlighting China's oppression of Uyghurs (in The National Review and The Diplomat, and on The Young Turks); intellectual property fraud committed by a direct marketing giant (in the print edition of Inc. Magazine); and public officials' failure to protect the safety of the residents of a Maryland condominium (in The Washington Times). You can learn more about our agency, and see some of our case studies, here: https://themediawhisperer.com/ About The Job We are seeking to hire our first employee: Someone, like Michael, with a background in investigative journalism. This is a remote job. It is part-time, but the expectation is that it will become full-time (and hopefully soon). Prospective hires must be able to conduct onboarding interviews with our clients that last at least 1-hour, during which you will need to diligently (though politely) tease out the most compelling aspects of clients' professional and personal lives. Afterwards, you will need to synthesize your interview notes into a concise PR pitches engineered to persuade overwhelmed and underpaid journalists to dedicate many hours of their lives to writing or broadcasting our clients' stories. You can learn about our PR pitching process here: https://themediawhisperer.com/blog/pr-secrets
Compensation
About $100/hour Attributes of an Ideal Hire
- A background in investigative journalism
- Experience conducting interviews where you've pushed subjects to reveal sensitive details about their life and/or jobs
- The ability to transcribe your interviews in real-time (rather than recording them and transcribing the recordings at a later time)
- Writing experience, ideally long-form articles over 3,000 words
- A desire to tell other peoples' stories
- A passion for uncovering hidden truths
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