Hiring Question

About a year or two ago when MacRumors was hiring writers, I applied. I have over five years of experience in professional journalism spanning newspapers, websites, and magazines. I submitted my application and samples yet never heard back, not even a "No thank you," (I expect this from large companies, but MacRumors, really?).

I harbor no harsh feelings over the above when taken alone. However when I read an article like this and see obvious defects (lack of information as detailed in this post) that not even a rookie student journalist would make, I question what exactly comprises the hiring process at MacRumors. This question obviously leads to: And is there an editor, let alone an editorial board?

I mean no offense to the writers and staff of MacRumors. Truly I enjoy many of the stories, however I yearn for decent writing, and I have a feeling that I am not alone.

Finally, although I have inflicted harsh critique of your website, I would love to be a part of making it better. Are you by chance hiring?

Respectfully,

Dan, longtime reader


*waits for editorial critique on this post*

 

Thank you!

Yeah, I was only being 30% serious although I would truly love the chance to write for MacRumors.

Sure thing, I will do so! Thank you!

 

What I wrote was blunt and honest and what you too propose is blunt and honest. The fact is that I hold several jobs currently and I was mostly writing all of this in jest. I know I offended MacRumors staff and Arn, but when a qualified writer with an experienced background DOES do what you suggest I should have done (you assume I did not) and continues to read stories that clearly lack editorial ambition, it leaves one with a bad taste in his mouth.

I thoroughly enjoy this website; it's one of my oldest active internet memberships. I would be happy serving as an editor for free, just emailing spelling corrections, grammatical mistakes, etc, to say, a particular email account. If only to make MacRumors a better website because honestly, when a certain employee was hired a few years ago, there was an abundance of harsh critique leveraged at him for his writing deficiencies. And I felt bad because I was there at one point, a rookie, and the comments were hurtful.

Ironically now I am the one who has made the hurtful comments and I apologize profusely.

But in conclusion, I did as you suggested and honestly I had the feeling that I was being shunned or that MacRumors did not want to pay for my experience. I served as a volunteer global moderator on InheritanceForums.com for a couple years back in its heyday. I did so for free and loved it, putting in so many free hours was no problem.

Finally, out of interest in not fueling fire to this anymore, I ask that this thread be locked (if I can do it after posting, I will do so). I am not asking for the last word, obviously Arn and MacRumors mods can still post. I am simply acknowledging that my comment was disrespectful and I regret it.

Respectfully yours,
Dan

P.S. I have tremendous respect for Arn, the guy seems to live on here. His account seems almost like a sentient bot whom I shall now associate with Skynet