Another Writing Site Bites the Dust
@BelleStarr (61102)
United States
July 1, 2016 10:28pm CST
To say I was shocked is an understatement. Examiner.com is closing their doors. I have written for them for 5 years and I always thought they were solid as a rock. Evidently not.
They were purchased by AXS a couple of years ago and have been changing their focus toward entertainment articles. I was accepted to write them but have never done so since this is not really my area of interest.
They are only giving their writers until July 10, 2016 to save their articles. I have over 200 and so I have my work cut out for me getting them all saved and getting the urls so I can prove that I own this work. If the past is any indication, the site will be scrapped and the articles stolen so we need to have the proof of our ownership and the day we wrote the articles.
This will certainly hurt my ability to get media comps since most of my articles were written on Examiner since it had a great reputation. The available sites to write on is decreasing fast.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 16
I had never heard of Examiner.com and the entertainment focus would have been of interest to me but alas it is yet another writing gone down. Choices are dwindling.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
Their AXS site will remain so you can still apply there to write. It is Entertainment news, concerts etc.
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@jayaramas (1353)
• Bangalore, India
2 Jul 16
it is not only posts but also friends and chats that we will be loosing.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I hadn't thought about that, but I should have hooked up. They had more journalistic pretentions with an honest-to-god style sheet. They withheld your first three articles until you passed muster.
But they paid, well, squat. They just happened to close down when I'm about 47ยข short of the payout.
@JohnRoberts, you can still apply to AXS, the people who own(ed) Examiner. Their emphasis is on entertainment. Think I'll pass the word to Scott also.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50606)
• United States
2 Jul 16
What a shame that they are closing.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
It is a shame, I will miss them not for the money but for the platform.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
It does but you especially need to keep your urls. That is how you prove ownership.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
2 Jul 16
@BelleStarr Yes I keep all the urls too. It made it easier when deleting them from Bubblews too.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
2 Jul 16
@BelleStarr - Ms Belle - The rascals invited me to write for them under my "old" Examiner title from several years ago. I wrote about environmental and health matters back then. Sure wish they had told me what was "up" when they sent me the invitation, but that's the way things tend to work in the Internet world.
As an aside to @jaboUK - I'll not be sending you a copy of the Examiner article promised. In fact I did not, and will not write the thing. Wonder why.... 
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
Yes I am not happy with the short notice either. I won't be writing for AXS.
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@akalinus (43334)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I never wrote for the examiner but I am shocked that it is closing.
If you download them, it saves the original HTML and has the date of the article. I went through this when Helium shut down. I downloaded a bunch of my better articles. It is shocking how many places I wrote for that have shut down. Maybe it's me, I don't know.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
Oh I know I had 2,000 articles on Helium and 300 on Yahoo Voices, you think I would learn lol
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@akalinus (43334)
• United States
2 Jul 16
@DeborahDiane I may give them a look over. I am working on some stuff to send to Listverse and Supernatural Stories. Not doing well with it. I got out of the habit of writing.
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@DeborahDiane (40317)
• Laguna Woods, California
2 Jul 16
If you have a lot of experience as an online writer, you may want to try TheDailyVoiceNews.com (the word "the" in the title is important or you go to the wrong site.) At the bottom of their home page, they have a spot where you can apply to them. They are pay-per-view and my average views per article have increased steadily over the past 10 months. Hope to see you over there. I know many of the writers there also wrote for The Examiner and they are in shock, too.
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@cacay1 (83577)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
2 Jul 16
There are many good writing site early this year closed like Blogjob. By the way, there is a site I applied, but I was not hired.They only hire from United States. It is a a very good site, high paying site. I may tell you the site name should you like.
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@jayaramas (1353)
• Bangalore, India
2 Jul 16
This is what is my worry. I am writing for nearly 20 sites and many have poor viewer response. This means all such sites will be closed one day. That is what I am still trying to find, a relatively permanent writing site, Any help?
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
2 Jul 16
Oh that is sad .. hope you get all your articles saved ..
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
@BelleStarr glad you are able to do that .. I wish I did that too with my Bubblews articles ..
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
7 Jul 16
@epiffanie You may be able to find some of them on the wayback machine
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I have about 3/4 of the done and will finish the rest tonight. I want to get them up on my blogs as son as the site goes off line.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
10 days is not much notice however. I would have expected better of them.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
2 Jul 16
i hope that'cher able to get such done, hon. shame they didn't give folks more notice. sadly, i don't trust any'f the writin' places online. they seem to "speak" with forked tongues.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I worked my butt off and got them all copied and saved so now I just want them to go away so I can use my articles on my blog.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
@crazyhorseladycx That I don't have to do, they are going to shut down so they will just magically disappear!! It is the thieves who will go after those articles that worry me!!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
2 Jul 16
@BelleStarr that's why i was wonderin' if'n ya couldn't delete 'em yerself 'n remove's many traces's possible. i so despise those folks who want somethin' fer nothin', thinkin' they're so brilliant, stealin' other folks work :( 'course, from what i hear, such's the "norm" 'n acceptable 'n some countries.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
lol I did, I have been working like crazy and they are all saved. I do have 5 more articles to write though for my other job.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
3 Jul 16
@BelleStarr You are making me exhausted! I don't know where you get your energy!
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
It looks like I should I have been at it for hours. lol When will I ever learn to do it as I go along.
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@just4him (317249)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
5 Jul 16
@BelleStarr I think that's the ageless question. 
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@lovebuglena (44717)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul 16
I have never written for them but I did hear that they are closing their doors from one of the owners of a group of sites that I write for that let you earn. Harlow-McGaw Media. Writedge, Daily Two Cents, Listofied and Penstrokes are some of their sites.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
8 Jul 16
@DeborahDiane I don't really enjoy writing about news to tell you the truth. Plus as I said, I am disillusioned with the sites. I had great hopes for them and they have been dashed. I am in the process of removing my content from W/E. When I have removed all that I am going to remove I will consider applying for the new site but I don't really need a commitment at this point. Thank you and you are doing a good job of promoting The DailyVoiceNews. I wish them success with this site, I just think they grew too fast and now they have abandoned W/E and DTS not to mention Reviewz and Listofied.
@DeborahDiane (40317)
• Laguna Woods, California
8 Jul 16
@BelleStarr - TheDailyVoiceNews.com is pay-per-view and you can write about Connecticut news or other topics that interest you ... including TV shows you follow.
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@lovebuglena (44717)
• Staten Island, New York
7 Jul 16
@BelleStarr What do you mean by "you can't take your articles off..."? Are you saying whatever we publish on their sites we cannot delete?
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
2 Jul 16
And here I am trying to get my foot in :)
Hope you manage to get your work done to protect your writings.
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@jayaramas (1353)
• Bangalore, India
2 Jul 16
any method to copy all our posts from such sites, so that at least, we can post them some where?
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I have about 50 left to save but yes I have been busy!! lol
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Jul 16
It was a well respected site. They had high standards and AP style, Oh well, life goes on.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
2 Jul 16
Just like it was on Bubblews @BelleStarr .
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@DeborahDiane (40317)
• Laguna Woods, California
2 Jul 16
Yes, the sites where you can write news, entertainment articles, or similar things are very difficult to find these days. When you recover your articles, you may want to move some of the current ones to TheDailyVoiceNews.com (the word "the" in the title is important or you go to the wrong site.) At the bottom of their home page, they have a spot where you can apply to them. They are pay-per-view and my average views per article have increased steadily over the past 10 months. Hope to see you over there. I know many of the writers there also wrote for The Examiner and they are in shock, too.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
6 Jul 16
I don't want to write news, it is not my niche. I am doing client work right now and I will move a lot of the examiner articles to my blog. If I decide to write I will probably go to Infobarrel. I am totally disillusioned with the Harlow MaGaw sites. I have more than 600 articles being held hostage on Writedge. You can no longer delete and de-index them for reuse.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
7 Jul 16
They are only a handful of good ones left/
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
It is saddening to hear when a writing site shuts down. Hope more good ones will come up.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
7 Jul 16
It is unlikely, the model for online writing has totally changed.
