Write for Dodgers Nation.
You'd be covering the LA Dodgers for one of the longest-running independent Dodgers sites on the internet. The work is daily — game recaps, roster moves, prospects, trades — and the readers are die-hard fans who notice when you get it wrong. If you can write fast, stay accurate, and keep up with a 162-game season, this is the job.
Free. About an hour, in one sitting. You'll know where you stand either way.
Know the door your story walks through.
This is the single most useful thing on this page. A headline that works on Discover is not the headline that works in a newsletter, and writing for the wrong one is the most common way a good writer underperforms here.
Where most of the reading happens.
- Google Discover
Headlines and recency are everything here — write for the fan who just checked their phone
A real share of it, consistently.
- Google Search (SEO)
Smaller today, being pushed.
- Facebook / Social
Starting rates, before you spend an hour on this.
$15 per post to start
A flat fee for every post that's published. $15 is the base; pay rises with experience and with how you score on the writing test. Best for writers who want to file a steady number of stories a week.
Paid per thousand views your stories earn, on our site and/or through syndication partners such as MSN and Yahoo. Rewards writers whose headlines travel.
A fixed monthly fee for an agreed publishing schedule. For writers who want to cover a beat as a regular part of the team.
Which plan applies depends on the role and is agreed with the editor before you start. What you score on this test moves the number from day one.
Writer
Dependable, resourceful, gritty writers who can adjust with the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry.
Starts at $15 per post. Pay depends on experience and on how you score on the writing test, so strong headlines and a strong post move the number from day one. You'll cover news as it breaks, some weeks heavier than others. The writers who do well here keep filing when the calendar is quiet and pick up the pace when it isn't.
One test covers every role here — take it once and the editors read it against all of them.
Dodgers Nation has covered the LA Dodgers independently for 15+ years. The audience skews hardcore — season ticket holders, minor league watchers, fantasy players — and editors want clean, factual writing with a fan's perspective and a journalist's standard for accuracy. Volume matters: this is a daily-coverage outlet, not a features magazine.
- Write everything in the fields provided. Every headline and the post are typed here, on this page, while the clock runs.
- Don't paste from another program or an AI tool. Pasted text is detected and recorded. It counts against your score, and the reviewer sees exactly how much of your work arrived that way.
- Each submit is final. You can't go back to change a headline or the post once it's in, so read it once before you press the button. Please finish in one sitting: starting and stopping counts as an attempt, and after three the test closes for a while.
Moving your own sentences around inside a field is fine and isn't counted. Reading the source article in a new tab is expected; the clock keeps running while you do.