Your San Francisco 49ers links for Monday, April 15th, 2019
Hey everyone! As the offseason has been progressing, Kyle and I realized we will be needing a few more writers on the staff to cover the Golden Nuggets that we do each day. As many of you who frequent the site know, the Nuggets are the start of the business day here at NN and go up around 2:00 A.M. 3:30 A.M. depending on who writes it. They are a collection of links from around the web from both national and local media pertaining to the 49ers.
We are looking for a couple people who would A: be able to take a day or two (or three) or B: learn the ins and outs and possibly be a reserve when called up for vacations and such.
Beyond writing Nuggets you won’t have any other responsibilities and this is a volunteer-only gig. HOWEVER, may alumni and current writers on the staff got their start writing the Nuggets. James Brady, who has gone to bigger things with SB Nation, got his first start at NN writing the Nuggets. I also got handed the Nuggets when I started as a sort of grunt work since I was otherwise useless back in 2015. As you know, I still do Saturdays and Tuesdays (and yes, I remain useless). The point is, if you’re reliable and can make some interesting sense (or nonsense) with your intro, Kyle and I would be more than happy to start handing you a couple more assignments when the season rolls around.
This doesn’t guarantee you will be moved over as a contributor and there’s no timeline of when we’ll decide to do it. It could be a couple months, it could be a year or two. It’s just when we think there’s a fit for your style and can start handing you stuff. NN is great for any aspiring journalist, sports writer, or any sort of writer in general looking for exposure and I highly encourage anyone who is trying to get involved in this line of work to start with this. If you’re a college student looking for clips, this could be something to help with as well. As we said, it’s going to be free, but you can’t put a price on the possible exposure through social media with our audience.
If you just want to help out doing Nuggets and that’s it, that’s fine as well. I’m just saying if you’re looking to break into the site as a regular contributor, this is a great foot in the door as it has helped others.
Once you get the hang of it, you should be able to get through a Nuggets post in about 30-45 minutes depending on how long you make it— even sooner on slow times (I can knock them out in 15 minutes often during the season). The only thing is, we typically don’t start writing Nuggets until around 9-10 P.M. PST—or in Kyle’s case, at 6:00 A.M. when someone forgets to do it—so if you have an early bedtime on the east coast, this might not be the volunteer job for you.
If interested, drop possible days you could do it in the comments. I’d say give the evening/morning of as your possible days so no one is confused. So I do Nuggets on Friday evening/Saturday morning as an example. And yes, if someone wants to take Fridays, you can have ‘em! Kyle will comb the comments and contact those we feel appropriate. Feel free to ask any questions below as well, we’ll try to answer them.
And here’s some links:
Garoppolo not only injury concern as 49ers get back to work (Inman)
San Francisco or elsewhere, will Nick Bosa have a locker-room problem? (Florio)
Round by round wide receiver fits for San Francisco (Draft Network)
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