Michael Curzon is giving up his day job on the Daily Sceptic, having been poached by a national newspaper. He’ll continue to contribute and help out from time to time, but he won’t be able to do what he does at the moment, which means I’ll need to replace him.
Michael’s job involves the following:
- Posting four or five ‘worth reading in full’ pieces every day
- Preparing original articles for publication (e.g. making sure they comply with house style and getting them set up on WordPress)
- Doing the News Round-Up (all the contributors send in suggestions and we’ve got a gizmo that converts URLs into what you see in the News Round-Up, although each item needs a bit of tidying up)
- Sending the Daily Update to our ~15,000 email subscribers
- Promoting the Daily Update on our social media channels
We can pay £250/week, but it’s a seven-day-a-week job and the last bits – doing the News Round-Up, sending out the Daily Update and promoting it on our social media channels – usually happen between 11pm and 1am, so it would probably suit a young childless person in the foothills of his/her career. Michael reckons it takes him about two-and-a-half hours a day. Some familiarity with WordPress is essential, as are some sub-editing skills, e.g. the ability to spot when things aren’t in the house style and change them so they are.
Michael has very kindly given us some notice so we’ve got a couple of weeks to find a replacement. If you’re interested, please send your CV and a covering email to me at lockdownsceptics@gmail.com, putting “Job Application” in the subject header.
We are immensely grateful for all the work that Michael has done and delighted he’s agreed to become a contributing editor. He’ll be a hard act to follow, but if you’re any good you’ll probably be poached by a national newspaper too. The Daily Sceptic has racked up over 20 million page views and averages 1.5 million/month so your name will be in front of a lot of eyeballs.
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Yes, Michael’s done a brilliant job. I do remember when he started that he had to put up with a bit of flak from certain people here, but I’ve seen none of that in recent months as Michael’s huge contribution to LS/the DS has become obvious. Very best wishes, Michael. Have enjoyed listening to you on Bournbrook (sp?) too.
Thanks, Deborah, that’s very kind of you – and pleased you have enjoyed listening to the podcast, too.
I make that about £14 an hour
And people wonder why the sceptic message is not more widely heard
In the early days, I think people volunteered! Where do you think the money’s going to come from, Julian? Gates?
And of course I am a contributor, as I hope most frequent posters are. But my £20 pm isn’t going to go very far!
Volunteering is noble and so is working for £14 an hour if you could earn a lot more than that as a journalist, which I am sure you can.
I have idea how much money TY has access to in order to run the DS but I guess it’s not enough to pay people top dollar.
My point was not intended as a criticism of TY, more as a reality check that the reason we’re losing the propaganda war is not that our case is weak or we’re making the wrong arguments, it’s that we’re being outspent by a factor of a million or more.
There are some rich sceptics out there. Some have stepped up to the plate with their money – maybe lots of them. Laurence Fox supposedly got given several million to fund his party. We need more!
Grateful thanks Michael for all the work that you have done for the site and of course through that, for us site followers and believers. All the very best in your new position.
Yes, seconded. And hopefully our loss here is our gain in terms of another sceptical mind operating in the mainstream media.
Thank you, very kind.
Will be missed.
Yes Thank you Mr Michael Curzen for supporting not just lockdown questioning but a journalistic quest for the truth something the majority of journalists don’t achieve!
Please try not be corrupted by our National Newspaper lust for donations from global demons With strings attached and souls then sold!!! Beware and best wishes.
Thank you – I certainly won’t be!
Thank you and
I will look out for your work ..kindest
Thank you Michael.
Thank *you*
You’re leaving a hell of a gap, Michael. All the best in the new job.
Kind of you to say so, thank you.
Thanks for all your work Michael, in what at times must have seemed a thankless task.
Then again, I reckon that good journalism is almost always thankless in it’s early stages – about uncovering the facts and stories some people don’t want out there, and which probably the majority of the public don’t want to or are initially uninterested to hear. Put another way, telling people what they want to hear, and what the Establishment wants them to hear, is almost certainly not good journalism.
Hopefully the Daily Sceptic will prove a solid grounding for a life in wider and honest journalism. Good luck.
So sorry to hear you are leaving Michael. All the very best for the future, I will be looking out for your features wherever you are headed, I have thoroughly enjoyed your work at LS and DS.
TY might have a problem recruiting a replacement though, not least because…THEY are also recruiting for a cushty little number, top dollar too!
Pretty much all of the available workforce will surely be queuing for this one. A nice little number canvassing for new jabees around various towns and cities. Not sure whether you’ve come across it? “Covid Vaccination Engagement Assistants”.
I call it the new jibJabjob.
Yup I think that’s got legs.
I can hear the advertising ditty already…. Jibjab jibjab anybody for a jibjabjob? Jibjab jibjab, knicknackknockin’on their doors its the jibjabjob… Only morons need apply.
Thank you – that’s kind of you to say so.
That’s actually where I’m heading…!
Good luck with this one, Toby, I hope you find another angel. It isn’t the money, I believe there are plenty of volunteers around, but if you draw a blank perhaps you might consider splitting up Michael’s job into practical components. I don’t wonder he’s moving on, however reluctantly.