About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed (Nasdaq: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet with a mission to spread joy & truth. Across entertainment, news, food, pop culture, & commerce, our brands drive conversation & inspire what audiences watch, read, & buy now & into the future. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed is committed to improving it: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, & creative; & inspiring our audience to live better lives. 

Business Area: Content

Job Category: Editorial

Hourly: $20.00 USD an hour

Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed is committed to fair & equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, & geography.

The Community You Will Join

The BuzzFeed.com Quiz Fellowship is a three-month-long program, with the hope of extending up to a year, for aspiring & hungry writers eager to hone their skills & learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to consistently create content that captures readers attention, pushes the cultural conversation forward, & reaches a massive audience. 

BuzzFeed is both a tech & a media company & weve long used audience data & trend insights to publish widely shared articles that surprise & delight people. The Quiz Fellowship is a chance to be part of this hugely analytical & creative practice. Youll learn & learn to get obsessed with how quizzes are packaged & how to keep finding huge audiences. 

This Fellowship is for people who love making interactive things & care deeply about how audiences respond to them. Were looking for quiz writers who are curious, experimental, & motivated by learning what works.

In this role, you'll study performance data, test new ideas, & refine your approach based on real feedback. Some days youll chase a cultural moment; other days youll obsess over the most shareable quiz result, or why one version of a quiz outperformed another. The common thread is a desire to build experiences people actually want to engage with.

Fellows will work with & learn from members of the BuzzFeed team some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, & most viral creators out there. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media. You wont be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone elses interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, & writing dozens of quizzes that will be published to BuzzFeed.com & promoted across our social channels. 

This is a paid position (starting at $20/hour). The Fellowship allows for candidates to work fully remote in select locations. If youre local to NY or LA, there will also be opportunities to work alongside us in our Flatiron or Hollywood offices.  This is a full-time 40-hour-a-week position, Monday through Friday.

The Fellowship is fun & inspiring, but also fast-paced & challenging. Youll be expected to meet goals related to output & article performance, with additional bonus compensation based on exceeding given success benchmarks.

The deadline to apply for this Fellowship is February 20, 2026 by 5pm EST.  All application materials will need to be submitted when you apply. The intended (tentative) start date for this Fellowship is March 17th,  2026.

A Typical Day

We're looking for culture & internet obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending, & talking about. You should also have:

• A positive, curious, playful disposition
• A genuine, wide-eyed love of pop culture & internet trends in all their forms
• An interest in social platforms & what drives people to share content
• Curiosity & excitement about social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.)
• Curiosity & excitement about utilizing emerging AI technology to create unique & entertaining content

In addition, you should demonstrate the following:

• • Some experience creating content for the internet (it doesnt have to be formal anything from published articles to creative Twitter threads to personal TikTok accounts)
  • Ability to quickly identify social trends & topics
  • Ability to handle critical feedback & improve from it
  • Eagerness to collaborate
  • Ability to interpret key audience data points relating to your work & use it to adapt & evolve your approach moving forward

Use of artificial intelligence or an LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process may be grounds for rejection of your application.

To Apply

Please submit the following when applying to be an Editorial Fellow:

• Instead of a formal cover letter, please include a few short paragraphs about what topics youd want to write about for BuzzFeed, & what interests you about the quiz content BuzzFeed creates. 
• Create a BuzzFeed.com/community profile, & create 2-3 quizzes one should be a personality quiz & one should be a trivia quiz. When you submit your quizzes, include This is for the Editorial Fellowship. in the description.  Youll be asked to provide the links to your posts when you complete the application.  SO, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY POSTS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION! We encourage you to check the Trending section of our Quizzes page to see examples of posts that reflect what were looking for, & to take note of the variety of topics & formats.
• P.S. We use AI tools to make our work better at BuzzFeed, but for your edit test we want to hear YOUR voice, not ChatGPTs.
• Provide links to your public social media accounts.
• Attach a resume keep it to one page!

Note: BuzzFeed offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) & open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, & WA.  For non sales roles, we can also hire in AR, AZ, KS, MO, SC, & VT.

Life at BuzzFeed

We celebrate inclusion & are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, & will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions.
• Opportunities for personal & professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, our Employee Resource Groups, & more.