Social Media Marketing Specialist

Volunteer for a startup reviving trusted local journalism through the power of community! 📰✨Suru enables anyone to report local news with journalistic integrity checks before publishing, putting trust and truth back into community storytelling.

The Challenge: Local journalism is facing a severe global crisis, driven by the systematic decimation of independent newsrooms and trusted local media. As neighborhood papers close down, communities are rapidly losing the vital local reporting that keeps citizens informed, connected, and capable of holding local institutions accountable. This collapse of hyper-local media creates a dangerous vacuum that is too often filled by unverified rumors, polarized clickbait, and algorithmic misinformation, leaving everyday people without a reliable or high-quality source of truth for the events happening right outside their doors.

The Solution: Suru addresses this democratic bottleneck by deploying an AI-native platform that empowers ordinary citizens to safely step up as trusted roving reporters. Through our platform, anyone can easily capture live eyewitness accounts, interviews, photos, videos, or written articles directly from the field. To ensure absolute credibility and prevent the spread of fake news, every single piece of community-submitted content goes through a rigorous journalistic integrity check before it is approved for publishing and distribution. By combining grassroots community storytelling with modern technology-enabled vetting, Suru rebuilds the foundation of trusted local news, ensuring that local truths are preserved, celebrated, and shared with integrity.

Role (Volunteer, unpaid): [To add]Role Description: Build Suru's initial voice and turn it into real growth, including signups, active users, and paying subscribers. You'd own our social presence from zero, shaping how we show up and reaching the journalists who need this.

What you'd do

• Set up and run our presence on the channels journalists actually use (Bluesky, LinkedIn, X)
• Create a simple, repeatable content rhythm covering product, mission, and the state of local news
• Engage the independent journalism community to drive signups and convert them into active users and subscribers
• Leave us a lightweight content calendar we can keep running after the role ends

What you'd get

• Visible impact on a mission that matters: keeping local communities informed and strengthening democratic foundations
• The opportunity to work with a founder who'll actually engage your ideas, stress-test them and credit you

Who this suits

• Someone who gets social media, cares about journalism or civic life, and wants the freedom to build from scratch

Time Commitment: Volunteer 2-3 hours per week for 1-2 months remotely 💻If you want to make change happen, apply to volunteer with Suru now!