Quick quick! If you respond to this ad in the next two-and-a-half minutes, you might be the lucky one chosen! The task? Hitting the streets to round up food carts for Thursday night's book launch of Michael Franzini's "One Hundred Young Americans," out a couple of weeks ago from HarperCollins, our favorite company that is currently being sued for $100-mil by Judith Regan.
You'll recall NBC's noisy departure from Apple's iTunes store in August. First we heard the problem was that NBC had asked Apple to raise per-episode prices to $2.99. Then, we heard Apple advocated cutting prices to 99 cents a show, arguing that volume would make up for lost profits. Now, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker reveals he misplayed the negotiations even more than we could have imagined. He asked for a piece of Apple's iPod hardware sales.
According to this memo from Time magazine managing editor Rick Stengel, his deputy, Priscilla Painton, is headed out the door, in search of her "Act Two." Painton joined Time in 1989 and later edited the magazine's "Nation" section. Painton's exit marks yet another departure of a "Time/life-er," increasingly rare on the 23rd floor. But! Stengel promises champagne to the magazine's dwindling staffers—French, no less—to soften the blow. No word yet as to who will replace Painton, who was known (wait for it!) for her competence.
A mysterious "World Famous Magazine" is looking for an executive assistant for an unnamed "special correspondent," so sayeth The List of Craig. Candidates should apply through Forrest Solutions, a recruiting firm which has repped the likes of Random House, Time Warner, and—oh! Newsweek! Funny that. This is no Conde Nast job; they're actually putting up a decent salary, to the tune of $80K. Unfortunately, there is a catch: Criminal records will be checked, so all you would-be Peter Braunsteins out there need not apply.
Defamer is committed to informing its currently unemployed, comedy-writing readers about exciting job opportunities being made available outside of the traditional TV-staffing-season process, and so we pass along this painstakingly detailed Craiglist cattle-call for our town's funniest, least annoying, and most blindly trusting scribes. Sure, trying to staff a union show on CL seems like a strategy only marginally less suspicious than sneaking up behind anyone tapping away at a laptop at a local Starbucks and ensnaring them in an enormous butterfly net, but hey—breaking into the sitcom game has never been tougher, so why not take a potentially fatal risk to get that first gig? An excerpt:
WHO: Two interns for a project!
WHAT: Two interns! Project!
WHERE: New York City
WHEN: ASAP
WHY: Because you have an irrational obsession and a healthy disgust for women's magazines, celebrity weeklies, fashion, dating tips and Gwyneth Paltrow.
HOW: Email us at fashionwhore@gawker.com and tell us who you are and why you want to spend 20+ hours a month explicating the content in everything from Jane to Jane's Defence Weekly. IMPORTANT: Emails with attachments will be deleted before opening.
Valleywag, Gawker Media's Silicon Valley gossip site, is searching for a senior editor—someone currently practicing business journalism who fancies moving to the San Francisco Bay Area and mastering a whole new batch of Masters of the Universe. The job is full-time and offers highly competitive pay to go along with high visibility. To apply, send an email (no resumes or attachments, please) with a paragraph or two about yourself and your interest in the job, plus links to blogs or articles you've written, to jobs@gawker.com.
Do you like moving pictures? Do you prefer working but two to three days a week? Do you have a reel, maybe some experience with Final Cut Pro, and a love of working as a video production assistant? Then read on!
Valleywag, the tech news tabloid of Silicon Valley, is looking for an editor versed in Valley verbiage to file brilliant daily items for this site. This is a full-time job and pays accordingly. If you're interested, write a stunning paragraph about yourself and a stirring paragraph about your suitability for the job and send both to managing editor Lockhart Steele, lock@gawker.com. No resumes or attachments, please.
Forget coming up with a new killer app — the most profitable tech job right now has to be video. You got studio Lionsgate signing an iTunes distribution deal with Apple, existing old-media and online powerhouses building out video content creation studios, and everyone from Viacom to Myspace hoping to create Youtube-killers. Anyone who can help post Flash video should be able to write their own ticket on either coast. Google's even buying up online rights to old TV shows while simultaneously helping video pirates sell ads. Cash in while you can, coders.
Gawker is looking for a writer with a strong obsession with women's magazines to work on various and sundry projects, the particular details of which may be revealed at some date in the mid- to far-future. This is a full-time job that pays accordingly. You should be based in New York City and ready to start more or less immediately. If you're interested, write a paragraph about yourself and a paragraph or two discussing a women's magazine of your choosing and email it to jobs@gawker.com. If you've got a blog, please include the URL. For our sanity, and yours, emails with resumes or attachments will be deleted unread. Don't make us get all Laurel Touby on you. Thanks.
