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Do you want to get involved?
Are you interested in helping Ethical Traveler carry out our mission?
Part-time News Editor for Travel-related Nonprofit Group (worldwide)
Ethical Traveler, a Berkeley based non-profit, is looking for a volunteer editor for our news department.
Skills required:
- Demonstrated experience editing news and/or feature stories. Must be able to handle both line and copy editing. Some fact-checking required.
- Self-starter capable of managing assignments, copy flow and writers to meet monthly deadlines
- Keen interest in travel and international issues (cultural, environmental, human rights, etc.)
- Job requires approximately 8-10 hours per month
- One year commitment desired
- Academic credit available
- Telecommuting OK
Ethical Traveler is an all-volunteer organization uniting adventurers, tourists, travel agencies, and outfitters to join our voices, and to use our economic power to strengthen human rights and protect the environment. The news department is responsible for the news section of our web site, ethicaltraveler.org/news.php.
For your reference, the ET News manual is online here:
et-vols.pbworks.com/ET-News-Manual
And our writers' guidelines are here:
et-vols.pbworks.com/ET-Writers-Guidelines
This is an unpaid, volunteer position. However, there is an honorarium of $100 per month.
Ethical Traveler is a project of the Earth Island Institute.
If you are interested in this volunteer position, please send a brief cover letter and resume (as text pasted into the body of your email message only; no attachments of any kind please) to michael@ethicaltraveler.org. If your resume is on the web, feel free to send the URL in the text of your email.
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