A job opening posted on both JournalismJobs.com and Media Bistro, a “Washington, D.C.-based publishing company” is looking for freelance gossip columnists who can

“do for the nation’s capital what the New York Post’s ”Page Six” and Lloyd Grove, Joanna Molloy and George Rush of the New York Daily News do for the Big Apple: Publish insider gossip that no one can afford to miss!

Are you plugged in to the D.C. social and political scene? Do you know what’s going on behind closed doors? Do you know who’s on the way up and who’s poised for a fall? And if you don’t know, do you know whom to call to find out?

If there was ever a city where below-the-radar social and political maneuverings have a bigger impact on the fate of a nation or at least its high muck-a-mucks, we don’t know that city. Washington is a gossip columnist’s dream, and we want to make that dream come true for the right writers … “

We here at DCist agree there’s certainly lots of “below-the-radar” activity to cover, and wonder who’s recruiting the writers: the W.Times? The Post? Perhaps we’re planning a DCist.com/gossip? Let the speculation begin!