Jobs and Opps at BBC Sport, Insider, i-D, Sifted,eu and Many, Many More ✨
Plus, we launch our new series, Reset 🌱
Happy Tuesday, everyone – I hope you’re well and have been enjoying what’s turning out to be a very exciting summer of sport! I was lucky enough to be at Wembley on Sunday to see England win the Women’s Euro Final first-hand — and I’m still not over Chloe Kelly’s wonderfully audacious antics that secured the win. All in all, I had a great weekend — I stayed at a Premier Inn Hub hotel (who doesn’t love a Premier Inn?), scouted out some great bakeries in Shoreditch, enjoyed several overpriced pints, and watched the Lionesses make history.
It was somewhat of a reset weekend. I didn’t check my work email, I wasn’t thinking about to-do lists, and my social battery didn’t die on me. I returned to work this morning ready to go. I would be lying, however, if I said I managed to “reset” like this every week. Achieving this magical work/life balance we often hear people talk about is much easier said than done, especially when working from home.
Although WFH certainly has its benefits, I’m sometimes thrown off balance trying to separate “work” and “home”. Honestly, I’m still learning about the ways I can maximise my productivity — while avoiding burnout and protecting my mental health. Which is why we’ve just launched a new Journo Resources series, Reset, all about the future of work in the journalism industry.
Reset will be deep diving into what’s happening next and how it affects you — while providing you with insights, advice, and hacks to help you navigate your working day. To kick off the series, I’ve been getting stuck into some research about the flexible-looking future of the journalism industry, sourcing some practical advice along the way. Dive in, and let me know what you’d like to see next!
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The English National Opera is once again running ENO Response, a mentoring and training scheme to help people people break into opera journalism. Open to all ages, you’ll get tickets to the press night of ten performance, where you’ll network with other participants and journalists. You’ll write a review for each performance, with dedicated one-to-one feedback on each review before it’s published, as well as access to additional workshops and training. Applications close on August, 14, 2022.
The Journalists’ Charity offers financial support and advice for journalists who are struggling.
🚨 🏡 Last chance to apply for the editorial and social media assistant job with Kindred Spirit Magazine. They’re happy to consider remote-working candidates and will pay up to £24,000pa.
🚨 🏡 Just a few more days to become a fellow with Insider as well — they’re looking for a reporter to focus on investing. It lasts six months and you’ll be paid £23,000pa.
The BBC has an opening for a journalism researcher, with a focus on the environment. Pay starts at £23,103pa and you’ll work on data journalism projects around climate science, explainers, and fact-checks.
Saga Magazine is looking for a features assistant to help with pieces covering everything from celebrity to health. It pays £26,000pa and you only need to be in the office a couple of days a week.
🏡 Small Business Britain are looking for a communications executive to provide marketing support across the 10th anniversary of Small Business Saturday. It’s fully remote and pays £21,500–25,000pa.
Sifted.eu is looking for an editorial assistant to join their team to cover start-ups and scale-ups. We’re big fans of their work and the stories are super interesting. Pays £25,000pa.
🏡 SWNS is looking for a junior reporter in the Midlands to write stories that will be published in a range of national newspapers. Pay starts at £22,000pa and they’re open to people who don’t yet have any journalism qualifications.
Getty, off of photographs, are looking for a digital content assistant to work across web, social, and email. Your work here could help newsrooms shape their stories, which is pretty cool. Pays £28,000pa.
🚨 Spotted via our friends at MediaBeans, BBC Match of the Day Magazine is looking for an editorial assistant to primarily work on social posts. It pays £25,000pa but act fast, it closes tomorrow!
Channel 4 are running a media planning apprenticeship, which lasts for 15 months and is perfect if you want to work in TV marketing. Pays £21,261pa.
The Royal Navy is looking for a communications and digital engagement lead to reach diverse audiences with their wider fitness campaign. It pays up to £30,000pa and they want someone with a journalistic background.
Wilmington plc owns a number of specialist B2B brands and is looking for a reporter to work across a wide range of beats, from drug safety to health policy. They’re paying £34–38,000pa.
🏡 Don’t tell me you don’t want to be a recipe editor for Great British Chefs. It’s exactly as it sounds — editing and publishing recipes, features and videos. It pays up to £28,000pa and you only need to be in once a week.
South Cambridgeshire District Council is looking for a communications officer to come up with content for multiple platforms. Again, they’re hoping for someone with journalism experience. Pays £30,737–35,747pa.
The British Heart Foundation has an opening for a health editor, who’ll write and edit content for their magazine and online publication Heart Matters. It’s primarily for those managing heart conditions and pays £42–45,5000pa.
The weekly round-up of BBC jobs is here, as ever. They’re looking for a journalist to focus on social media for the cricket, as well as journalists at BBC Radio Northampton and BBC Radio Suffolk. They’re all Band C, so pay £25,670–50,313pa.
🏡 Insider is looking for an entertainment reporter to work a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule. The pay starts at £35,000pa and goes up DOE.
🏡 SWNS is looking for a senior reporter based in the East of England to work on breaking stories and commissions for national titles. Pays up to £31,500pa.
FE Week and Schools Week are looking for a senior features and investigations reporter to focus exclusively on engaging features and long-form articles. Genuinely, this seems like an incredible opportunity and pays £32,500–42,500pa.
Five Mile Films, who produce some amazing TV shows, are looking for an assistant producer. They’re offering £33,800–44,200pa.
And, finally, Notts TV is looking for a local democracy reporter. While they’re primarily looking for writing skills it seems like a good way to break into broadcast reporting as a politics specialist. Pays up to £31,000pa.
The BBC is looking to make a pool of freelance journalism coordinators for Radio Oxford. It’s an entry-level role, so well worth applying for and will also include some paid training.
Ancestral Name are looking for a part-time content creator to help them run their social channels. You’ll be paid £13ph and need knowledge of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and The Witcher so you can make in-jokes.
Friend of Journo Resources and all-round good egg Tufayel Ahmed is looking for pitches for Insider's entertainment section, and is also adding people to his roster of freelancers. There’s loads of info in his thread too.
i-D is looking for pitches on sex, music, movies, culture, and LGBTQ+ stuff from around the globe. Send all your ideas to Douglas Greenwood. Pays £150–200 per piece.
Kiera Fields, also off of Insider, is looking for pitches about people moving in and out of several US cities. Take a look over this way.
The Progress Network is looking for pitches around the problems with the media, with a focus on solutions and tips. Pays between US$250–650.
Sebastían Rodrigues is the new special projects editor at Climate Home News and is looking for your pitches.
Katherine McLaughlin is looking for pitches for SciFiNow, spanning everything from interviews and features to reviews.
🚨 Jack Carter is still looking for pitches around finance and investment for a Telegraph supplement until tomorrow. Get them in this evening!
TechCrunch is looking for pitches on all things related to start-ups and tech policy. Send your ideas to Jagmeet Singh.
NYM Magazine is looking for pitches from disabled and ally writers for their second print edition. Pays up to £150 per piece.
Autostraddle is also looking for sex and dating pitches. Get in touch with Ro with an outline of what you’d like to cover – remember they’re a queer website.
Applications are now open for Night School, a free eight-week programme for 18-25-year-olds looking to break into the creative industries. It aims to address a lack of ethnic diversity with a range of mentoring, workshops, and support.
🚨 Applications to the inaugural Media Freedom Awards by the Society of Editors close this week. Get your entry in this way.
Megacities ShortDocs Citizen Film Festival is open again for 2022, with prizes of up to €1,500 for documentaries on “megacities”, of which London is one.
🎪 There are just a couple of weeks left to get tickets to our roundtable on how to navigate an overwhelmingly white and middle class industry.
🎪 Registration is also open for our first set of virtual co-working events. Join us to get a load of stuff done together.
🚨 There’s an end of the week deadline for the Young Minds Writers Programme. It’s for people aged 18-24 with lived experience of mental health problems and offers mentoring and coaching to make an impact with writing.
The Women Artists of the North East are offering a £1,500 fee for someone to produce a new piece of writing that responds to their library and histories of women artists in the North East.
Our latest Day in the Life piece chats to award-winning journalist and campaigner Liam O’Dell, who has some excellent advice on working for free and taking the long way round.
And, finally, don’t forget to read Hannah’s first piece in the Reset series, which looks at how to tackle the future of remote work.
Can You Help Us Get Through The Summer Months? 🌞
Summer is one of the most difficult times for us at Journo Resources – job adverts slow down, event sign-ups dry up, and it’s basically just really hard to pay the bills. Even a really small donation of just £4 a month can help us get through the next couple of months and keep paying our staff and freelancers. Plus, we’ve also put together an expanded list of perks and benefits too!