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You've been told you're a people person. You know how to make someone smile.

You're also curious. People have mentioned that you’re good at asking good questions.

You also spend time on the internet. You've watched waaay too many videos (especially shortform). Who knew that this could help you get a job one day? It means you kinda know what lands and doesn't land, even if you've never done video yourself. What I'm saying is you have an "eye" for what good content looks like even if you've never produced your own.

This role combines these three skills into one role: producer.

Here's where I can use your help.

I run a remote video production agency. Our clients are all over the US, busy running their businesses. But they want to produce video content for LinkedIn and beyond.

So they hire my agency to interview them once per month for an hour. Like being on a podcast, but the point is just to produce short videos (45-90 seconds).

As a producer/account manager, you'll meet with our clients in a remote video call for one hour every month.

- You prep questions using ChatGPT and other insights from the client’s onboarding call
- You meet them in the monthly call
- You make them feel comfortable on camera
- You coach them on how to position their phone and where to place themselves for optimal lighting
- You interview them using the questions you already sent
- You pass the footage on to our editor

Careers you might have done before include teaching, sales, acting, journalist, coaching, or online event management/hosting.

All technical training is provided.

But these four things you bring to the table:

- Empathy -- this will help people feel comfortable on camera
- Curiosity -- you're good at asking questions and follow up questions
- Flexibility -- sometimes clients have to reschedule and you have to elegantly follow up to get a new session scheduled
- Taste -- you know what makes content land vs fall flat because you've been on the internet for a while

You’ll also be helping with other jobs around the agency for a total of 10-20 hours of work per week.

You’ll definitely need these things as well:
- No noise or distractions when doing client calls.
- Good internet connection.
- Availability during US business hours (8 am - 5 pm central US)

If you want to see a short clip from one of these sessions, check out the videos attached.

Project Overview
We're a digital marketing agency producing a flagship original research report on behalf of our client, Shook & Stone, a top-tier Nevada workers' compensation and personal injury law firm based in Las Vegas and Reno.
The deliverable is a long-form, citation-worthy research report titled "Shook & Stone 2026 Work Injury Research Report" built on 20+ first-person interviews with workers who have been injured on the job. This is not a roundup of secondhand statistics — we want original quotes, original data, and a report journalists and bloggers will want to link to.
This piece anchors a broader SEO strategy targeting Nevada workers' comp keywords, so the writer must understand how to weave in internal links and topical authority signals naturally without compromising the journalistic integrity of the report.
Scope of Work
1. Sourcing & Interviews (20+ subjects)

Recruit 20+ U.S.-based individuals who have suffered a workplace injury within the last 5 years (Nevada residents preferred but not required — we'll prioritize quality of story over geography).
Sources can come from Reddit (r/workerscompensation, r/legaladvice, r/jobs), Facebook groups, LinkedIn, Craigslist, X/Twitter, or paid panels (Respondent.io, User Interviews). Stipend budget can be discussed.
Conduct 20–30 minute structured interviews via Zoom or phone. Record with consent.
Verify each interviewee is real (no AI-generated personas, no fabricated quotes — this will be checked).

2. Data Collection
At minimum, capture for each interviewee:

Type of injury (back, knee, shoulder, head, repetitive strain, etc.)
Industry / job role at time of injury
How the injury occurred
Time off work / recovery timeline
Whether they filed a workers' comp claim, and how that process went
Whether they hired an attorney, and the impact on their outcome
Total financial impact (medical bills, lost wages)
What they wish they had known

3. Written Report (3,000–4,000 words)

Compelling intro framing the state of workplace injuries in 2026
Aggregated findings section with original stats from the 20+ interviews (e.g., "X% of injured workers waited more than 30 days to file their claim")
4–6 standout case study profiles with direct quotes (anonymized first names + job titles)
Section on recovery timelines by injury type
Section on the role of legal representation in claim outcomes
Conclusion + clear CTA to Shook & Stone
Internal links to four client pages we'll provide (Vegas work comp, Vegas work injury, Reno work comp, Reno work injury) — placed naturally in context
E-E-A-T signals: bylined attribution, methodology section, interview date ranges

4. Visual Asset Brief (you provide; we design)

1 hero infographic concept summarizing top findings
2–3 simple charts (bar/pie) we can hand to a designer

Deliverables & Timeline
MilestoneDeliverableDueWeek 1Interview script + sourcing plan approvedEnd of Week 1Week 320+ interviews completed; raw data spreadsheet sharedEnd of Week 3Week 5First draft of full reportEnd of Week 5Week 6Final report incorporating revisionsEnd of Week 6
Required Qualifications

Proven experience writing original research reports, white papers, or longform journalism (please share 2–3 samples)
Comfortable conducting and recording structured interviews
Strong understanding of on-page SEO and internal linking — but writing must read editorially, not like a blog post
Experience writing in the legal, insurance, healthcare, or HR space is a major plus
Native or near-native English writing
Available for a 30-minute kickoff call

Nice-to-Have

Prior experience writing for personal injury or workers' compensation firms
Familiarity with Nevada workers' comp basics (NRS Chapter 616)
Existing access to interview subjects via Reddit, Discord, or recruiting panels

Budget
Fixed-price project. Please submit your proposed rate along with your application. Strong candidates with relevant samples will be prioritized over lowest bidders. Stipends paid to interviewees will be reimbursed separately upon receipts.
To Apply, Please Include:

2–3 writing samples (longform research reports preferred)
A brief paragraph on how you'd source 20+ injured workers in 3 weeks
Your fixed-price quote and earliest start date
Confirmation that you can record interviews and share raw transcripts/data

Applications without writing samples or a sourcing plan will not be reviewed.

Hello!

We’re looking for a Spanish-speaking writer or journalist to conduct in-person interviews with a couple of elderly individuals and write their memoirs.

They live in Castellón de la Plana, near Valencia.

The job includes:

Conducting and recording a series of interviews with both individuals (this could take place over a weekend or a full week if the writer is not based nearby).
Using those interviews, along with additional research and family archive materials, to write their memoirs as a single book.

The project does NOT include proofreading, formatting, or publishing (we will take care of that after you submit your draft and the client approves it).

Please:

1. Introduce yourself.
2. Explain where you’re based.
3. Include samples of your writing.


Spanish:

¡Hola!

Estamos buscando un/a escritor/a o periodista hispanohablante para realizar entrevistas presenciales a una pareja de personas mayores y redactar sus memorias.

Viven en Castellón de la Plana, cerca de Valencia.

El trabajo incluye:

Realizar y grabar una serie de entrevistas EN PERSONA con ambas personas (esto podría llevarse a cabo durante un fin de semana o a lo largo de una semana completa si el/la escritor/a no reside cerca).
Utilizar esas entrevistas, junto con investigación adicional y materiales del archivo familiar, para escribir sus memorias en un solo libro.

El proyecto NO incluye corrección, maquetación ni publicación (nosotros nos encargaremos de eso una vez que entregues el borrador y el cliente lo apruebe).

Por favor:

1. Preséntate.
2. Indica dónde vives.
3. Incluye muestras de tu trabajo.

We're a specialist B2B content and SEO agency hiring a senior writer for an ongoing client engagement in the Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) space.

The client's audience spans engineering managers, CTOs, and DevOps leads at enterprise organisations. Content needs to be technically credible, commercially grounded, and clearly argued.

## What you'll be working on:

↳ SEO-driven blog posts and long-form articles
↳ Topics spanning DevOps, engineering productivity, AI in software delivery, and related technical areas
↳ Regular output as part of an ongoing content calendar

## What we're looking for:

↳ Proven B2B SaaS writing experience — DevOps, engineering tools, or developer productivity strongly preferred
↳ Genuine technical fluency: comfortable writing about DORA metrics, CI/CD, sprint forecasting, and AI-assisted delivery without heavy hand-holding
↳ Reliable, consistent output at pace

## Ideal candidates can demonstrate any one or more of:

↳ Bachelors degree or equivalent
↳ 2+ years real-world work experience in relevant field or role
↳ 2+ years steady, reputable writing or journalism in relevant field

• Pick a software engineering metric and explain how you'd make it accessible to a non-technical executive audience in a blog post.
• What's your process for researching and writing on a technical topic you're not already familiar with?
• Describe your recent experience with similar projects
• Please list any certifications related to this project

Job Description:
We are looking for a detail-oriented researcher and writer to help us source, process, and adapt Freedom of Information (FOI) material on a weekly basis for our social media and content channels.
What you'll do:

Submit or source FOI requests relevant to our topics of interest
Review and summarize received FOI documents into clear, engaging content
Adapt material into formats suited for social media (posts, threads, short articles)
Maintain a consistent weekly delivery schedule
Flag particularly newsworthy findings

Who we're looking for:

Experience with FOI requests Strong research and writing skills in English
Ability to distill complex documents into readable content
Reliable, self-driven, and meets deadlines
Background in journalism, law, or public policy is advantageous

Engagement:

Ongoing, weekly work
Flexible hours
Remote

What We're Looking For:
I run a Pennsylvania-based outpatient psychiatric practice and need a skilled freelance pitcher to handle ongoing journalist outreach across HARO, Qwoted, Source of Sources, Featured, and #JournoRequest.

You'll scan queries daily, draft pitches drawing on quotes and expertise I provide, submit after my approval, and manage follow-ups. I provide all clinical content — you handle the pitching mechanics. Target volume: 15-25 pitches/month, 5-10 qualified placements/month after a 60-day ramp.


TIER STRUCTURE & RATES (full details discussed in interview and job offer)

TIER S — $700
Major national / medical publications. Examples: NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, NPR, AP, Forbes (staff), Bloomberg, The Atlantic, JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, NEJM, The Lancet, STAT News, KHN, CNN Health, BBC Health, NBC News Health
Requires: 1M+ monthly traffic, staff-written editorial, contextual quote, MH/psychiatric/healthcare topic

TIER 1 — $300
Premier health/healthcare editorial. Examples: Healthline, Verywell Mind, Verywell Health, Psychology Today (staff), Self, Health.com, Everyday Health, Parents.com, Motherly, Inc., Entrepreneur, HBR, Business Insider, Philadelphia Inquirer, Modern Healthcare, Behavioral Health Business, ADDitude, Psychiatric Times, NAMI
Requires: 250k+ monthly traffic, named editorial staff, bylined journalist, domain 3+ years, editorial section, topical relevance

TIER 2 — $200
Mid-tier editorial with MH/healthcare relevance. Examples: Mind Body Green, Well+Good, Mindful, Bustle (MH), Refinery29 (MH), Scary Mommy, Fatherly, The Muse, Pittsburgh/Philadelphia/Boston Magazine, BPHope, OCD-UK, The Mighty, KevinMD, STAT First Opinion, The Conversation US, Medical Economics, The Fix, Filter Magazine
Requires: 50k+ monthly traffic, named bylined author, domain 2+ years, editorial section, topical relevance

TIER 3 — $150
Niche editorial. Examples: niche MH/behavioral health blogs, PA/psychiatric association publications (state/national), small-market regional news (health coverage), disorder-specific publications, peer-recovery publications, telehealth/healthcare entrepreneurship publications, MH-focused parenting blogs, college health publications, addiction/recovery publications
Requires: 10k+ monthly traffic, named editor, named bylined author, domain 18+ months, original content, topical relevance

TIER 4 — $100
Emerging/specialty niche. Examples: smaller MH publications below Tier 3 traffic, emerging publications with named editors, hyper-local health news, narrow-audience specialty publications, smaller PA/workforce publications, credentialed clinician/journalist blogs with editorial standards, newer peer-recovery publications
Requires: 3k+ monthly traffic, named editor, named bylined author, domain 12+ months, original content, core expertise relevance

HARD DISQUALIFICATIONS — $0
Paid "Write for Us" / contributor mill sites; known PBN or paid-link networks; substantially AI/scraped/syndicated content; articles with misinformation or credential misrepresentation; sponsored/branded/advertorial sections; any placement where money changed hands with publication; sites below tier traffic minimum; bio/footer/sidebar placements; exact-match keyword anchors; unrelated niches (gambling, crypto, adult, generic SEO); domains under 12 months old.
Sponsored-labeled nofollow placements disqualified entirely.

All placements require: contextual link in article body, named credential, and content I've approved before submission.

To apply, please address these in your proposal:

3-5 placements you've landed for past clients (URLs, ideally healthcare or YMYL)
Realistic hit rate on relevant queries
Healthcare/YMYL experience and understanding of medical content standards
Walk me through a recent pitch you landed start-to-finish

Hard requirements: native or near-native English, 2+ years HARO/Qwoted experience, all pitches approved by me before submission, no fabricating clinical content, detailed reporting required for payment.

Trial period: 60 days at reduced volume expectations. Either side can exit at day 60.

Looking to collaborate with a few creative geniuses to spread awareness on food poisoning. I have complete script and possible for elevation.

Charitag is looking for a Full-Stack Marketer to support foundational marketing execution across community marketing, social media, SEO/content, and general campaign support.

We are an early-stage startup building an AI-powered fundraising solutions company designed to help modernize and improve how fundraising is organized, experienced, and brought to market. Because we are in a foundational growth stage, this role is broad and hands-on. We are looking for someone who can help us execute across multiple marketing workstreams, not just one narrow channel.

This is a strong fit for someone who is proactive, organized, resourceful, and comfortable helping a startup build its marketing presence from the ground up.

What you’ll be helping with:

🔹 Community Marketing
Support trust-first engagement across Facebook groups, Reddit communities, and other relevant online spaces. The goal is to engage naturally, contribute meaningfully, build familiarity over time, and help generate awareness and conversation around the problem we solve and the company we are building. This includes identifying relevant communities, engaging thoughtfully, and eventually supporting posts that align with community tone and relevance.

🔹 Social Media Marketing
Help create and execute social media content based on current brand messaging, campaign direction, and content strategy. This may include supporting post creation, writing captions, helping with graphic content if capable, scheduling through Meta Business Suite and LinkedIn, replying to engagement, and helping manage the content calendar.

🔹 SEO & Content Marketing
Support blog writing, SEO-focused content creation, and foundational written content that helps strengthen discoverability and authority over time.

🔹 Email Marketing (not required)
Email marketing experience is a plus. This may include helping with basic email content, campaign setup, or execution support as needed, but this is not the highest immediate priority.

🔹 PR & Media Outreach (not required)
PR experience is a plus. This may include helping identify journalists, trade media opportunities, and earned media outreach opportunities in support of brand awareness and credibility.

What we’re looking for:
✨ Someone who can work across multiple marketing functions
✨ Strong execution skills and ability to move ideas into output
✨ Comfortable in a startup environment where work is foundational and evolving
✨ Strong writing and communication skills
✨ Social media and community awareness
✨ Organized, proactive, and able to follow through
✨ Able to work with strategy and turn it into action

Strong bonuses:
➕ Graphic design skills
➕ Content writing skills
➕ Content calendar management
➕ SEO/blog writing experience (not required)
➕ Email marketing support
➕ PR or journalist outreach experience (not required)
➕ Experience working with startups or early-stage brands

Important note:
This role is execution-focused. We are looking for someone who can help bring structure, consistency, and output across different marketing areas as we build our presence and momentum.

If you are someone who enjoys helping a startup build its marketing foundation from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 To apply, send:
🔹 Your resume or portfolio
🔹 Relevant work samples
🔹 A short note on your experience across community, content, social, or growth marketing
🔹 Why you think you’d be a strong fit for a startup execution role

Hello everyone! ❤️💫

For our brand SHALOM GOOD VIBES we are looking for street interviewers around the world! 🌍💫

We are searching for content creators that can conduct street interviews while wearing our SHALOM sweaters. The interviews have to be ORGANIC / AUTHENTIC – NO ACTORS. NOTHING REHEARSED.

The vibe is PEACE, KINDNESS & GOOD VIBES — just like our brand SHALOM.

NOTE: THIS CAN BECOME AN ON-GOING JOB (max. 3 jobs through UpWork a month at this point)

Are you the one?
Do you feel the spark?
Let’s create something beautiful together.

Send us a message — we can’t wait to connect!

I'm buildinga citizen journalism website, focussing on fraud reporting and alerts.
Have all basics ready to go

About Charles Denyer Productions

Charles Denyer Productions is an investigative podcast documentary network built around one mission: Every story has layers. I uncover them.™

These are not casual conversation podcasts. They are hard-hitting, deeply researched documentary series — the kind that sit down with the documented record and show you what it actually says. Through flagship channels Threat Level RED and Chasing Power — both award-winning — Charles Denyer has built a reputation for cutting through the official narrative and exposing the structure underneath: where power is exercised, decisions are made, and outcomes are shaped long before the public ever hears about them. Intelligence failures. Government cover-ups. Corporate power. Global events. The machinery that keeps everything moving — and what happens when it fails.

The network is growing. Multiple new investigative series are in production and launching throughout 2026 and beyond. This is not a podcast hobby. This is a serious documentary brand being built for long-term authority.

The Immediate Project: 9/11: Full Story — 25th Anniversary Launch

On September 11, 2026 — the 25th anniversary — Charles Denyer Productions will release all 15 episodes of 9/11: Full Story simultaneously. This is a complete documentary series grounded exclusively in declassified intelligence, congressional testimony, and on-the-record admissions from the officials who ran the investigation themselves. No conspiracy theories. No speculation. The documented record — and what it actually says.

The trailer is live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnkKUb8ylU0

We need a seasoned organic growth and community engagement strategist to build awareness, credibility, and anticipation for this release over the next four months. The goal is to be in the conversation — not interrupting it with ads.

What This Project Is NOT
To be direct: we are not looking for social media managers who run PPC campaigns, buy followers, or pitch vanity metrics. We are not interested in paid promotion of any kind. We are not looking for templated content calendars or generic "post 3x per week" strategies. If your pitch leads with impressions and clicks, this is not the right project for you.

What This Project IS

We are looking for someone who understands how real communities work — specifically the communities that care deeply about 9/11 history, government accountability, intelligence failures, and investigative journalism. These communities exist and are active on Reddit (r/911truth, r/conspiracy, r/politics, r/history, r/Intelligence, r/Documentaries, and others), on Facebook groups dedicated to 9/11 families, first responders, and researchers, on YouTube comment sections, podcasting communities, and similar organic spaces.

The right candidate knows how to:

Map the relevant online communities and identify where the most serious, engaged conversations are happening
Participate authentically — not spam, not self-promote, but genuinely contribute to discussions in a way that earns credibility and naturally introduces the series
Identify the influencers, moderators, researchers, journalists, and community figures who shape these conversations and develop real outreach relationships
Build a four-month content and engagement calendar that creates genuine anticipation leading into the September 11, 2026 release
Identify podcast guests, co-promotion opportunities with other investigative journalists or 9/11-focused researchers, and credibility-building media placements
Track what is working and continuously refine the strategy

This is EARNED (not paid!) media, relationship-building, and community authority work. That's the assignment.

Compensation
Hourly engagement. Rate is negotiable based on experience and demonstrated results. This is a four-month initial engagement with strong potential for a long-term ongoing relationship across the full Charles Denyer Productions network as new channels launch.

Who You Are
You have done this before — not for a brand selling products, but for content, ideas, and storytelling. You understand niche communities and how trust is built inside them. You are a skilled writer who can represent this brand with the same intelligence and seriousness it carries. You move strategically, not reactively. You have a point of view on what actually works for organic growth and you are not afraid to say what doesn't.

References and demonstrated past results are required. Please include specific examples of organic growth campaigns you have led for content creators, investigative journalists, documentary filmmakers, or podcast networks.

The Bigger Picture
This four-month engagement is the entry point into something larger. Charles Denyer Productions has multiple investigative series currently in development and launching through 2026 and beyond, including:

A sweeping multi-episode investigation into America's economic and strategic dependence on China — examining how that dependence was built, who benefited from it, and what it is costing the United States across manufacturing, technology, supply chains, and national security

A deeply reported, multi-part investigative series on the organized forces targeting American children — covering predators, traffickers, digital exploitation, and the systemic failures across institutions that were supposed to stop them

A landmark 25-part investigation into the JFK assassination — not speculation, not mythology, but the documented record: who pulled the trigger, who covered it up, and how that cover-up held for over sixty years

A hard look at what Americans are actually eating — how the food supply became a profit machine, what the science says about the consequences, and why the regulatory system designed to protect consumers has consistently failed to do so

A full investigative reckoning with the pharmaceutical industry — the clinical trial manipulation, the addiction crises, the pricing architecture, and the government relationships that have allowed one of the most powerful industries in the world to operate with minimal accountability

The long-term vision for Charles Denyer Productions is clear: to become the definitive voice in investigative podcast documentary — the same way Ashley Flowers built Crime Junkie and Audiochuck into a media empire by owning a lane completely and executing it at the highest level. The goal is not to participate in the investigative podcast space. The goal is to define it.

To Apply
Please include: your relevant experience with organic community growth for content or media brands, specific platforms and communities you have worked within, examples of results you have driven without paid advertising, and your honest assessment of what a four-month organic strategy for this project should look like.

This is the kind of work that matters. We're looking for someone who treats it that way.

Role purpose:
We are looking for a FOIA Research Specialist to help build the content pipeline for a police bodycam YouTube channel. This role is responsible for identifying strong real-world police incidents in target cities or counties, determining which agency handled the event, locating the correct public records contact or request portal, and submitting public records requests for bodycam footage and related materials.

This is not just a request-submission role. The person we hire must be able to independently research incidents, identify the correct law enforcement agency, determine the right records pathway, and manage requests from discovery through delivery. The goal is to create a repeatable pipeline of strong bodycam cases that can be turned into high-performing YouTube videos.

Key responsibilities:
-Research target cities, counties, and law enforcement jurisdictions for bodycam-worthy police incidents
-Identify incidents with strong story potential, such as arrests, traffic stops, pursuits, disputes, unusual encounters, or other compelling police interactions
-Determine which police department, sheriff’s office, highway patrol, or other agency handled each incident
-Locate the correct records division, FOIA/public records contact, request portal, or submission process for each agency
-Draft and submit public records requests for bodycam footage, dashcam footage, 911 audio, CAD logs, dispatch audio, incident reports, arrest reports, and related records
-Track request dates, response times, fees, denials, and follow-ups across multiple jurisdictions
-Maintain a clean spreadsheet or database of incident leads, submitted requests, and final outcomes
-Organize received files and documents in a structured folder system
-Prepare short incident summaries for the production team so promising footage can move into scripting and editing
-Work independently with minimal oversight and build an organized sourcing system

Ideal candidate:
The ideal candidate has experience with U.S. FOIA or public records work and is also strong at independent research. They should know how to find incidents before a request is ever submitted, determine the proper agency and records office, and handle the full public records workflow without needing step-by-step direction.

You should be organized, persistent, detail-oriented, and comfortable dealing with law enforcement agencies, municipalities, and government records systems. Experience with journalism, legal research, paralegal work, public records retrieval, true crime research, or police/bodycam content is a major plus.

• Describe 2-3 public records or FOIA requests you have personally handled. What records did you request, and what was the outcome?
• If I asked you to find strong recent police incidents in one U.S. county, what exact process would you use?
• How would you find the correct records division, public records officer, email, or request portal for a local police department or sheriff’s office?
• How would you track requests, denials, fees, and follow-ups across multiple agencies?
• What factors would you use to decide whether an incident is worth requesting for a police bodycam YouTube channel?

We are seeking an experienced business journalist to cover the rapidly evolving prediction industry for PredictionIndustry.com publication (in pre-launch).

The ideal candidate will report on trends, innovations, and key players, providing insightful analysis and engaging content for our audience. Strong research skills and the ability to translate complex concepts into accessible articles are essential. Familiarity with the prediction market landscape is a plus.

If you have a passion for business journalism and a knack for storytelling, we'd love to hear from you!