{"id":33394,"date":"2014-01-09T23:31:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T03:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=33394"},"modified":"2014-01-09T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T03:31:48","slug":"job-writing-for-rocketnews24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/09\/job-writing-for-rocketnews24-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Writing for RocketNews24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>Posted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FY9j3sZ16aI\">blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discussionswithdao.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/06\/the-low-dao-33-sammus-part-one\/\">podcaster<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Jon Dao (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755165&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Toyama<\/a>-ken, 2009-12)<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to join the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">JETwit Jobs Google Group<\/a>\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong><i><i>Position<\/i><em>:\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/strong><i>Writer<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><b><i>Type:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>Freelance<br \/>\n<strong>Salary:\u00a0<\/strong>Compensation will be calculated on a per article basis plus incentive.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><b>Overview:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>RocketNews24 English is looking to hire a few talented writers to help us grow!<\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, RocketNews24 is a Japanese-language news blog. Since our humble launch in 2008, we\u2019ve built a massive fan base by reporting the interesting, strange and random\u2014much of it brought over from the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce that, thanks to a lot of hard work and our awesome readers, we are currently making plans to expand our website and increase our daily output. To this end, we are looking for a couple of talented writers to join our team.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in helping us out, check out the requirements below!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Applicants should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be creative individuals who write regularly.<\/li>\n<li>enjoy keeping up to date with current events, trends and pop culture.<\/li>\n<li>speak\/read Japanese well (equivalent to JLPT N2 or better).<\/li>\n<li>be able to produce five or more articles per week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Applicants from all over the world are welcome. We are also looking for speakers of Chinese, Korean or other Asian languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please send your resume, Japanese and English, and translations (see #2 below) via e-mail to the following address:<\/p>\n<p>recruit @ en.rocketnews24.com<\/p>\n<p>1\uff09\u3001Please write the following IN JAPANESE in your e-mail.<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\nName\uff1a<br \/>\nAge\uff1a<br \/>\nAddress\uff1a<br \/>\nMotivation for applying\uff1a<br \/>\nE-mail address\uff1a<br \/>\nTelephone number\uff1a<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>\u203bPlease write\u300e\u82f1\u8a33\u30e9\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u30b9\u30bf\u30c3\u30d5\u5fdc\u52df\uff0f\u6c0f\u540d\u300ffor the subject.<br \/>\n\u203bPlease attach a picture of yourself with your resume.<\/p>\n<p>2\uff09\u3001Please translate the following two articles and submit them with your resume<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketnews24.com\/2010\/08\/24\/%E6%99%AE%E9%80%9A%E3%81%98%E3%82%83%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%EF%BC%81%E7%A5%9E%E6%88%B8%E5%8C%97%E9%87%8E%E3%81%A7%E7%95%B0%E4%BA%BA%E9%A4%A8%E3%82%92%E6%94%B9%E8%A3%85%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E3%80%8E%E3%82%B9\/\">\u25a0\u666e\u901a\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\uff01\u795e\u6238\u5317\u91ce\u3067\u7570\u4eba\u9928\u3092\u6539\u88c5\u3057\u305f\u300e\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30d0\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u300f\u306b\u884c\u3063\u3066\u304d\u305f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Please write an original piece that you think would be a good fit for RocketNews24. This could be a translation of an article from a foreign language website, a short piece introducing something neat you found on the net or your own personal opinion or anecdotal piece based on your experiences in Japan and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Only accepted applicants will be notified of the results.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to receiving your application!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by\u00a0blogger\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster\u00a0Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12).\u00a0Click here\u00a0to join the\u00a0JETwit Jobs Google Group\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Position:\u00a0Writer Type:\u00a0Freelance Salary:\u00a0Compensation will be calculated on a per article basis plus incentive. Overview: RocketNews24 English is looking to hire a few talented writers to help us grow! Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, RocketNews24 is a Japanese-language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8GC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33395,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions\/33395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}