"Success looks like a small, devoted team of business humans (editor, scouts, interviewers, photographers, video producers) sitting with the people running Kitsap County's independent businesses long enough to come back with stories that show the work, not the brand. The team runs at the speed of attention, not the speed of the LinkedIn feed. Eventually it runs without me in the operational loop."
Kitsap Biz covers the people running independent businesses in Kitsap County and beyond — founders, owners, second-generation operators, craftspeople who left their day jobs, nonprofit operators who've been at it for decades. We publish long-form profiles, photo essays, and Q&A interviews built around the actual humans doing the work.
We are not a startup blog. We are not a corporate-news site. We do not write the "press release of record" for chains. We are a publication built on a bet: that real attention given to one operator at a time produces something more durable than the announcement-of-the-day cycle.
We are recruiting collaborators in five roles — editor, scouts, interviewers, photographers, video producers. Each role is listed below as a task. Claim one if it sounds like your kind of work.
Kitsap Biz is one publication in the Human Story Experiment network. Editorial framework: Age of Robots.
Roles we need — join the team
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Editor
Kitsap Biz needs an editor — the person who holds the standard, runs the editorial calendar, and makes the call on what makes the page. This is the most consequential role on the team. You need real editorial chops, an instinct for the difference between a profile and an advertorial, and the willingness to say "not yet" to pieces that aren't ready. If you've edited a publication you'd actually want to read, this might be you.
⏱ ongoing📅 a few hours per week✨ editorial judgment, business-world fluency, writing/editing experience, taste
🔒 Approval required1 spot open
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Scout
People who notice the operators worth writing about. A bookkeeper who's been at it 40 years. A new founder doing something specific and weird. A multi-generation family business. A craftsperson who quit a corporate job. A nonprofit operator who's outlasted three executive directors. If you keep noticing the operators the business press keeps missing, you might be a scout.
⏱ ongoing📅 as available✨ curiosity, local business-world knowledge, ability to spot interesting operators
8 spots open
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Interviewer
People who can sit with an owner through a workday and come back with the "what was actually hard" stories, not the "we're growing fast" ones. People who know when to ask the second question. If you're a careful listener with a recorder and an instinct for the moments owners stop talking like a brand, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 two hours per interview, plus writing✨ deep listening, writing, comfort in workplaces, business literacy
🔒 Approval required4 spots open
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Photographer
Workplaces, hands, signage, the actual person — not the LinkedIn-headshot version. We need photographers who can sit in a back room or a shop floor long enough that the owner forgets the camera is there. If you understand environmental portraiture is closer to listening than to documenting, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 a morning per shoot✨ portrait and environmental photography, patience, composition that respects workspaces
🔒 Approval required3 spots open
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Video Producer
We publish video alongside writing. We want the shop floor, the workbench, the back room — process and conversation, not promotional production. Slow b-roll that respects the space. If you've made video that feels less like a corporate explainer and more like documentary noticing, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 a day per piece✨ documentary video, editing, audio capture, patient eye
🔒 Approval required2 spots open
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