About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We'll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like Complex Networks and HuffPost to come.

Business Area: Content
Job Category: Editorial
Hourly: $18.00 per hour USD
Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

The BuzzFeed Fellowship is a three-month program with possible contract extenstion for aspiring and hungry writers eager to hone their skills, and to learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to consistently create content (both articles and videos) that capture readers’ attention, push the cultural conversation forward, and reach a massive audience.  

Fellows need a strong grasp of the nuanced cultural conversations happening all over the internet and should be excited about contributing to those conversations — if not starting new ones — via AI-enhanced/generated content. We’re looking for people who are fascinated by social media, human psychology, and trends of all kinds. On any given day, you might be researching behind-the-scenes facts and Easter eggs about a trending piece of pop culture, testing out cooking hacks, or making a TikTok explaining a viral news topic. 

Fellows will work with and learn from members of the BuzzFeed team — some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, and most viral creators out there. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media. You won’t be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else’s interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, and writing dozens of stories that will be published to BuzzFeed.com and promoted across our social channels. You may also create (or collaborate with team members) to create vertical videos (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts). 

The Fellowship is fun and inspiring, but also fast-paced and challenging. 

This is a paid position (starting at $18/hour). The Fellowship allows for candidates to work fully remote in select locations. If you’re local to NY or LA, there will also be opportunities to work alongside us in our Times Square and Hollywood offices.  

The deadline to apply for this Fellowship is Friday, May 10th, 2024 by 5pm EST.  All application materials will need to be submitted when you apply.  The intended (and tentative) start date for this Fellowship is Monday, June 17th, 2024.

You Have

We're looking for culture and internet obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending, and talking about. You should also have:

  • A positive, curious, playful disposition
  • A genuine, wide-eyed love of pop culture and internet trends in all their forms
  • An interest in social platforms and what drives people to share content
  • Curiosity and excitement about social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.)
  • Curiosity and excitement about utilizing emerging AI technology to create unique and entertaining content

In addition, you should demonstrate the following:

  • Some experience creating content for the internet (it doesn’t have to be formal — anything from published articles to creative Twitter threads to personal TikTok accounts)
  • Ability to quickly identify social trends and topics
  • Ability to handle critical feedback and improve from it
  • Eagerness to collaborate
  • Ability to interpret key audience data points relating to your work and use it to adapt and evolve your approach moving forward
  • Experience with video editing tools a plus
  • Familiarity with — and ideally experience using — current and emerging AI creation tools (Chat-GPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E) a plus

To Apply

Please submit the following when applying to be an Editorial Fellow:

  • Instead of a formal cover letter, please include a few short paragraphs about what topics you’d want to write about for BuzzFeed, and what interests you about the content BuzzFeed makes 
  • Create a BuzzFeed.com/community profile, and create 1-2 posts that reflect your voice and interests. Please submit articles or lists, rather than quizzes! When you submit your posts, include “This is for the Editorial Fellowship.” in the description.  You’ll be asked to provide the links to your posts when you complete the application.  SO, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY POSTS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION! We encourage you to check our Trending page to see examples of posts that reflect what we’re looking for, and to take note of the variety of topics and formats.
  • P.S. We love AI tools (seriously, they’re the best), but for your edit test, we want to hear YOUR voice, not ChatGPT’s.
  • OPTIONAL: Create a TikTok in the format of the videos on the @BuzzFeedNow or @BuzzFeeders accounts 
  • Provide links to your public social media accounts.
  • Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

"If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at applicationhelp@buzzfeed.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response."

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We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

  • A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more

Note: BuzzFeed, Inc. offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) and open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WV. For non sales roles, we can also hire in AK, AR, AZ, ID, KS, MO, ND, SC, and VT.

 

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