What we’re looking for
Ideally, neighborhood captains have some attachment or relationship with their neighborhoods. Perhaps they live there, or used to live there. Maybe they know people from the neighborhood, or visit often for work or pleasure. At the very least, captains should want to learn about the neighborhood and the people and organizations who call it home.
Responsibilities
As neighborhood captain, you will find and choose four to five Bests for your section and oversee their completion. Here’s what that means in practice:
- The week of June 20, the Weekly will host a virtual meeting with all captains to go over expectations, ideas, and questions. If you can’t make it, we’ll schedule a follow-up with you individually.
- You’ll have until July 5 to research and crowdsource suggestions from the community, and submit 4-5 Bests for your section.
- You should be ready to write the introduction to your neighborhood or find someone who can. For everything else, we can help find writers and photographers.
- Once we find writers for your section, you’ll be the point of contact for any questions they have. This will take place in July and August.
- By August 15, you should receive the first drafts of Bests in your neighborhood. You’ll need to communicate any thoughts, comments, and questions about the blurbs to the writers.
- By August 29, all the blurbs for each neighborhood will be turned in for final editing and fact-checking by Weekly staff. You should check-in with writers one final time to make sure they send everything in.
If at any point you run into problems in your section—late blurbs, missing artwork, writers who dropped out—a Weekly editor will work with you to make sure things go smoothly. While we do hope you’ll feel some ownership over your section, and work with writers and photographers to make sure it lives up to your vision, you won’t be on your own!
Use this form to apply to be a neighborhood captain.