Musiqtone is an online music news & media outlet whose contemporaries include: Alternative Press, Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, AbsolutePunk.net, Alter The Press (UK). We cover a multitude of musicians and bands from labels associated and/or represented with the major label groups (Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group), indie labels (like Hopeless Records, Fearless Records and Victory Records), PR and music firms (like The Collective, Shore Fire Media, Total Assault/Pop Generation and Crowd Surf) and the unsigned. The combined coverage makes Musiqtone one of the most comprehensive music journalism outlets out there and we want YOU to be a part of that by becoming a staff writer!
By applying, you have a chance to become a trend-setter yourself to your friends, family and people who just happen to be reading your stuff! You get the kind of on-field experience very few internships in our field rarely hand out, you get to be front and center in the action, interviewing the biggest names in music or helping to reveal the next biggest band or solo act that is just waiting to be promoted and explode! You will also get a chance to review the best (or worst and YES, that can happen) music has to offer with album reviews before albums ever go out!
So what are you waiting for? Get in on the action!
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WORKING FOR MUSIQTONE IS A VOLUNTARY POSITION AS IS A NOT-FOR-PAY DEAL. However, as voluntary as this position is, if accepted, you will have to be able to work within the requirements set by our staff writers handbook. If you would like to use your experience as a college internship-for-credit if your college/university offers, please notify us in your application.
Looking for: Candidates must be at least 17 years of age (no cutoff whatsoever for those 16 and close to their 17th birthday). Musiqtone is currently only open to males and females from the United States or Canada (currently only those in Ontario and British Columbia provinces only).
Application criteria: Please apply to the region you are geographically aligned to. If you are a college student, please apply to the region of your hometown and not the college/university in which you are enrolling or attending. You will still however if a part of Musiqtone get ops close to the college you are enrolling or attending.
Pre-Screening/Post-Application criteria: Candidates must have at least above-average writing proficiency, any experience in journalism is a plus. In order to effectively gauge proficiency, candidates MUST submit within 72 hours of applying two writing samples of best work to jobs@musiqtone.com. Candidates must be willing to work outside of their "music comfort zone" when asked upon and capable of working under tight time constraints. And finally, a love for music and writing about it!
If you have prior experience in our field and/or have worked at a record label or PR firm, you will be required to send us a cover letter and resume to us at jobs@musiqtone.com.
Optional criteria: On-camera poise and skill for v-seaters (video interviews), Tout/YouTube v-log updates and diaries. Any prior experience in our field will be heavily considered as a plus in the pre-screening process.
Application terms: If you submit an application (specific to the region), you hereby state that you are who you are and all information supplied is to the best of your knowledge valid and true. You hereby understand that we can reject any application outright for any valid reason during the pre-screening process.
UPDATE (03.21.2012): As social media networking becomes more and more the norm for many people, some companies have decided to take it a step even further, crossing the line into whether or not a gross invasion of privacy is occuring. Because of this, we are addressing this unfortunate situation.
Musiqtone.com DOES NOT AND WILL NEVER ask for your passwords to ANY social media account that you have. You have the OPTION of not disclosing your Facebook and/or Twitter page link to us on your application if you so choose.
We will also never make anyone sign a "non-disparaging" agreement as we believe the guidelines we set forth in our staff writer handbook is sufficient enough to maintain the honor system here. Our belief here is that what you do on social networks is generally entirely your business.
If your application passes the pre-screening process, you will make yourself available at a mutually agreed upon date and time to be screened in full by the regional head via an online method (either IM or video chat). This will act as your staff writer candidate interview. After the interview has been conducted, it will be disseminated between the regional head and the Chief Head/Chief Editor, Publisher in which a final decision will be made on your candidacy. |
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Musiqtone.com- Pacific/Southwest
Includes states and major areas of: California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon.
Includes the Canadian province of: British Columbia
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Musiqtone.com- South/Southeast
Includes states and major areas of: Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia
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Musiqtone.com Midwest
Includes states and major areas of: Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana
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Musiqtone.com East
Includes states and major areas of: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
Also includes major areas of the following Canadian provinces: Ontario and Quebec
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