The Call for Writers is one thing of an annual custom over right here at AnandTech. As anybody who follows the positioning is aware of very effectively, the listing of issues we’ve to evaluation/cowl simply exceeds our accessible time. So the decision for writers offers us an opportunity to seek out new expertise and new alternatives to develop, be it into new protection areas solely or simply masking extra of the prevailing merchandise our readers have come to get pleasure from over time.
The final objective of the Call for Writers is to seek out new expertise. To proceed to develop and enhance our content material, we want your assist. We’re on the lookout for writers with a real ardour for the expertise we cowl, a deep understanding of what is on the market and a thirst for extra information.
Like many different publications, the coronavirus pandemic over the previous 12 months has thrown a wrench in our protection plans – each by way of content material and staffing. But now that we’re lastly beginning to flip the nook on the pandemic, we’re getting ready to renew staffing up, increasing our protection, and coaching the following era of AnandTech editors.
To that finish, we’re on the lookout for contributors to assist out each with critiques in addition to our short-to-medium type Pipeline protection. The areas specifically we’re on the lookout for assist with are listed under:
- News/Pipeline (PC)
- News/Pipeline (Mobile)
- Networking
- Storage (Inc. Solid State)
- GPUs (US-only)
- Systems/Laptops (US-only)
- Mobile/Smartphones (US/Canada & Europe)
- Memory
- Community Manager (US-only)
- Monitors
- Home Automation/IoT
- Professional Graphics/GPU
If you end up on the intersection of data and fervour about any of these areas, and have a while to contribute, you are precisely what we’re on the lookout for. These are paid, part-time positions that we’re trying to fill, with most positions open on a world-wide foundation, and sure positions primed for a fast promotion to full-time. What I want is a writing pattern that demonstrates your capacity to speak about any considered one of these matters. Your pattern may be within the type of a evaluation, a pipeline submit or an evaluation piece – it ought to be one thing that appears prefer it would slot in on AnandTech.
Once you have produced it, ship it on over to callforwriters@anandtech.com. Please additionally embody an outline of what topic(s) you’ll be fascinated by writing about, and a few primary details about your background and the place you are situated. We’ll learn by means of all samples, however we will not assure a reply as a result of sheer quantity of submissions we are inclined to obtain. If we like what you have despatched and there is a potential match on the crew, we’ll be in contact.
And even when we aren’t, please do not hesitate in making an attempt once more subsequent 12 months; anybody who has utilized earlier than is welcome to use once more. 2019 was a banner 12 months for us, for instance, and we had many extra good submissions than we might realistically reply to.
I’ll conclude this submit with a passage from our About web page:
In the early days of expertise reporting on the net the main focus was nearly completely on depth. We had a brand new medium for content material that did not include the identical restrictions as extra conventional varieties. We might current as a lot information as we felt was vital and we might do it faster.
As the online grew, so did the method to gaining readership. In many circumstances, publishers discovered from the guidelines and methods of extra conventional media to rising their viewers. The focus shifted away from final understanding of what was being reported, to producing content material considerably motivated by growing site visitors, or income, or each. Thorough observations had been out; sensationalism, hyperlink baiting, and the trail to shallow 10-o’clock-news reporting had been in.
While I consider it is undoubtedly simpler to provide content material by going this route, I do not consider it is the one technique to construct a…
