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LAVoice.org - Time for a New Editor
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 An open letter to the LAVoice.org community, and to all of the L.A. blogosphere:
Dear Friends:
When I launched LAVoice.org four years ago this month, it went up quietly and without much fanfare. I saw it as a crazy leap of faith - an experiment in open blogging and community journalism that might or might not work out - and never anticipated how great the response would be.
But it's time for a change - I'm looking for someone to take over the site that the users and I have built together and lead it into the future - more about that below ...
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LAVoice.org has delivered unvarnished opinions, breaking news and occasional scoops that have, we hope, proved valuable, or at least interesting for everyone who's followed this site.
We've given voters information and guidance, we've tracked geek obsession, wheeled culture and raw art. We've ignited pissing matches, we've embraced multimedia, questioned authority and showcased strong local voices from the docklands of San Pedro to the crack houses of south L.A..
And - complain though we sometimes we might - we've given a lot of love to Los Angeles. Heck, we even won a couple of awards along the way.
So here's where you come in: I want to give LAVoice.org - the platform, the assets, the ongoing (if small) ad revenue and its dedicated, savvy and passionate audience - to the right blogger who can carry on what we've built.
Maybe that's you.
If you're interested in taking on a virtually non-paying, 12- to 15-hour-a-week job - for the chance to re-shape, grow and drive a well-respected, L.A.-centric community blog toward being something brilliant, edgy and cool, then maybe this gig is for you.
Here's who I'm looking for:
Candidate:- A strong, clever writer with solid content-development skills in Photoshop, HTML, Unix and a willingness to get your hands dirty with a little code. I'll train you on our crazy-quilt platform and provide tech support where necessary.
- A die-hard Angeleno - someone who has a long history (7+ years in greater L.A.) and a healthy love/hate (or love/love) relationship with all of Los Angeles
- A serious blogger with an overwhelming desire to write two to six times a day. (Very important)
- An open-minded citizen of the world, with strong opinions but complete respect for all points of view - even the ones you disagree with violently.
Time Commitment:
You must be willing to put at least six months into helping LAVoice remain vibrant and alive.
Site Voice (and here's where the fun comes in):
My only editorial requirement for the candidate is that you agree to keep the blog regularly updated, factual, focused on L.A. and completely open (within the hugely sloppy confines of our Terms of Use) to public submissions.
In other words, the new editor of LAVoice.org will have utter carte blanche from me to re-imagine the core site.
Right now, LAVoice is sort of heavy on public-affairs, culture and, well, bikes. Maybe you'll remake it as an arts blog, a community-news hub, or even a jaundiced tats-n-pierced snarkblog on the sins of upper-crust Los Angeles. It can be A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G - so long as you encourage (even recruit!) Angelenos from all walks of life to post news and opinion here, too.
While the L.A. blogosphere has grown since we launched, and blossomed into a rich jungle of wild ideas, creativity and valuable street-level information and opinion, LAVoice.org is still the only blog in town that lets anyone in Los Angeles post.
I think that's something worth supporting. I hope you do, too.
Fact is, my life has gotten too hectic to let me continue managing the site: My consultancy has heated up considerably. I'm juggling multiple side and personal projects, (most of them under NDA, so don't ask). And the LAVoice community deserves someone with total focus.
Effective Feb. 6 - that's exactly two weeks from today - I'll be signing off. Before then, I hope to hand off the site and community to a new editor rather than shutting it down to archive status.
So post in comments below, or contact me directly: Tell me why you're the perfect candidate. Send me URLs of your recent L.A.-centric writing. And describe what you'd like to do with LAVoice.org, to keep it kicking ass, taking names and welcoming voices from all of Los Angeles.
Best wishes, and thanks for participating in LAVoice.org,
- mack -
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 12:05 AM
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