People who call Amsterdam home have many reasons to feel lucky to live here: the village atmosphere, the beauty of the canals, the bustling cafés and bars, the rich cultural scene, the cosmopolitan population. Since March 2004, they've also had another reason: a one-of-a-kind free weekly paper called Amsterdam Weekly.
Amsterdam Weekly is something new for the city: an independent cultural paper that offers high-quality journalistic stories about city life and a critical guide to arts and culture. We present feature stories from the city's most diverse collection of writers and publish some of the city's most creative photographers and illustrators.
Amsterdam Weekly has been exhibited twice at the Design Museum in London (cited as one of 'the most inspiring design innovations to have been developed in Europe in the past two years'), and this year won three European Newspaper Awards for front page, photography (Han Eikelboom's Photo Notes series) and illustration.
Subscriptions to Amsterdam Weekly are available on a six-month basis:
€70 within the Netherlands
€100 within the EU
€150 outside the EU
All prices include BTW (VAT). For more information, email
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Job openings and internships
Jobs
We are expanding. Amsterdam Weekly and Time Out Amsterdam are hiring immediately for a variety of positions. Dutch and English is strongly preferred for all positions.
Interested in one of these jobs? Email your motivation letter and CV immediately to
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Questions? Call Todd Savage at 020 522 5200.
Editor, Amsterdam Weekly
Are you the next editor of Amsterdam Weekly?
The city's award-winning free paper is hiring a new editor to begin in early 2009.
We are looking for an experienced journalist with a passion for and knowledge of Amsterdam to oversee the paper as it approaches its fifth anniversary.
You will be responsible for assigning and editing content and directing the vision of our print and online editions. Your first order of business will be overseeing a major new redesign of the paper, so we are looking for an editor with strong ideas and a passion to continue Amsterdam Weekly's unique tradition.
Candidates should possess the following: three to five years of journalism experience as a both writer and editor, native English skills with an excellent knowledge of Dutch and Dutch culture, and the ability to recruit, lead and inspire a team of editors and writers.
Interested? Send a motivation letter and your CV by 19 December to Todd Savage at
Please feel free to forward this announcement.
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Accountmanager
Een dag fietsen door de stad om Amsterdam en haar vele bedrijven en culturele organisaties te leren kennen? Als account manager bij afdeling Sales bij ons jonge media bedrijf kom je in contact met veel verschillende mensen; van de drukke restauranteigenaren in de Pijp tot de creatieve media planners in Amstelveen.
Wij zoeken een energieke Account Manager.
Verantwoordelijkheden van deze functie:
--werven van nieuwe accounts;
--onderhouden en uitbreiden van relaties en het steeds overtreffen van de verwachtingen van de bestaande contacten;
--samen met ons in-house ontwerpteam ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van krachtige advertentiecampagnes;
--ontwikkelen van creatieve marketingstrategieën om advertentiecampagnes te ondersteunen
Wij zoeken iemand die:
--slim, georganiseerd, creatief, vasthoudend en ambitieus is;
--elke maand onze sales targets weet te overtreffen;
--houdt van stevig doorwerken en een zeer gevarieerde werkdag;
--goed kan luisteren en meeleven met onze klanten om een perfecte promotiestrategie op te stellen;
--het leuk vindt nieuwe contacten te leggen, zowel via ‘cold calling’ als door bezoeken;
--er aan toe is zichzelf te bewijzen in een klein, internationaal georiënteerd bedrijf.
De ideale kandidaat:
--heeft relevante commerciële ervaring;
--kan zich goed uiten in het Nederlands en Engels (de meeste contacten zijn Nederlands);
--houdt van Amsterdam;
--kan door het eigen sociale netwerk en kennis van de juiste (fiets)paden makkelijk de weg in Amsterdam vinden.
Ons bedrijf:
Op ons kantoor aan het IJ werken collega’s van 11 verschillende nationaliteiten. Regelmatig organiseren wij borrels voor onze schrijvers en de culturele scene van Amsterdam.
Interesse? Stuur je CV met motivatie naar Todd Savage, Time Out Amsterdam and Amsterdam Weekly, 's-Gravenhekje 1a, 1011 TG Amsterdam of
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Account Manager
Spend your day on a bicycle in Amsterdam getting to know the city’s business and cultural community. As a sales account manager at our young media company, you will meet with a huge variety of people, from busy restaurant owners in De Pijp to busy media planners in Amstelveen.
We are looking for a hard-working Account Manager to help build the future of our award-winning free cultural paper and website (www.amsterdamweekly.nl) and our new monthly Time Out Amsterdam.
Responsibilities of this position include:
--prospecting for new advertisers for print and online advertising;
--cultivating relationships with existing accounts and constantly exceeding their expectations;
--designing impactful advertising campaigns with the help of our in-house designers;
--coming up with creative marketing ideas to supplement advertising.
We are looking for someone who:
--is smart, tenacious, organized, creative, and ambitious;
--is capable of meeting and exceeding ambitious monthly sales targets;
--likes to work hard and thrives on days filled with variety;
--is a good listener, enjoys understanding how a business works, and like to offer solutions to help clients be more successful;
--likes meeting new people, whether cold calling on the telephone or in person;
--is ready for the challenge of making a difference with a small, internationally minded company.
The ideal candidate:
--has prior sales experience and working with sales targets;
--has good communication skills in Dutch and English (most of your clients will be Dutch);
--should be an Amsterdammer--by birth or choice;
--knows your way around Amsterdam on a bicycle.
The company:
We offer a relaxed, interesting place to work: We have people of 11 nationalities working in our office in the centre of Amsterdam, and frequent borrels attended by our freelance contributors and some of the city’s cultural leaders.
Send a cover letter explaining your interest and a CV to Todd Savage, Time Out Amsterdam and Amsterdam Weekly, 's-Gravenhekje 1a, 1011 TG Amsterdam or
Internships
We regularly provide opportunities for students seeking internships in editorial, design, distribution and marketing/sales.
To be considered for a position, please send a motivation letter and CV to todd
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How to contribute
Amsterdam Weekly regularly publishes the work of local freelance writers, photographers and illustrators. If you are interested in contributing, read through these guidelines and send us some ideas.
What we're looking for: We are interested in magazine-style features, set in Amsterdam, that tell stories about city life. We're keen on interview- and research-based stories about people, events or interesting situations that require a writer's eye for detail. For our Around Town section, we look for news stories with a fresh angle or a twist. We like stories that show and don't tell: that describe a person, scene or event to us in a revealing way rather than just telling us what you think. Our emphasis is on good reporting and quality writing.
Stories we run include:
urban exploration
profiles
narrative literary journalism
news features (on politics, urban affairs, culture and economics)
arts features
neighbourhood controversies and conflicts
historical tales
essays
We may occasionally run stories that go beyond Amsterdam. Story length will depend on a story's merits, but can range from 300 up to 2,500 words.
What we're not looking for: We're not specifically looking for service-oriented articles aimed at expats, foreigners or tourists ('Where to find babysitters' or 'How to get a work permit') or stories about the experience of being a foreigner. Our readers live here, so stories should reflect a resident's attitude. That said, we remain open to any well-executed idea.
Writing for our arts and culture guide: Amsterdam Weekly offers a weekly agenda of what's happening in Amsterdam, including stories and critical reviews of film, music, art, theatre, dining, and nightlife. We are interested in longer culturally oriented features and profiles, as well as short reviews and tips on the week's offerings in arts and entertainment. If you want to write a review, sketch or discussion, it is a good idea to get in touch with us first, to ensure that your idea has not already been assigned.
Submissions and commissions: We rely almost exclusively on freelancers and have an open submissions policy. We are more interested in the story you have to tell than in how much you have published in the past. In fact, we're especially interested in hearing from writers who have yet to be published or who may have access to a story that no one else is so uniquely qualified to tell. If you haven't written for Amsterdam Weekly before, or haven't published the kind of story we are interested in, we invite you to come up with an idea and write a story for us. Once we get to know your work, we may consider commissioning your next proposal. Once we've accepted your story, we may ask you to work with us to develop it until it is ready for publication. We will always seek a writer's approval of a final version of their story.
Timing: It is important that you let us know as early as possible about stories with time sensitivity, so that they can be planned for. Our response time to your proposals and manuscripts will vary according to the story. Generally you can expect a response within two to three weeks, but don't despair if it takes a little longer.
Illustrators and photographers: If you are a photographer or artist, please direct us to your website, send PDF files of your work, or contact our art director on Thursday and Friday afternoons to make an appointment to review your portfolio.
Payment and policies: We pay for every story we publish. We pay more for stories that require exceptional enterprise and research. Here is what we typically pay: €10 for a critic's pick in our Short List; from €50 to €150 for an Around Town story; and a range of €75 to €400 for feature stories. Payment is about one month following the publication date. We buy exclusive first rights. Rates include possible publication on our web site.
How to contact us: Please send manuscripts double-spaced, including your name, address, phone number(s) and email address. Send electronic files via email to
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