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Everything to apply for as the darker nights roll in.

Just over a week ago, I found out we didn’t get a grant I’d really put my all into. The decision was already a week late — presumably due to a high number of applicants — and the confirmation emails had warned me many times that I may receive a rejection coupled with good feedback. Neither of these things filled me with hope, but I was mainly worried that the judges would hate it. Many people — including an MP who won’t be named here — have told me that they just don’t “get” Journo Resources. Sometimes they can’t understand the need at all, other times they ask why we’re not just whacking the whole thing behind a paywall and acting like Scrooge McDuck.

It certainly didn’t feel like the odds were in our favour for a competition run as part of the Government’s innovation service. While it was open to the creative industries, alumni were mainly made up of people working in tech, science, and industry. Convincing a panel of assessors that our tiny journalism social enterprise was the right thing to fund seemed a long shot — even if I know our idea is a bloody good one. So, when the rejection came through at the end of a long week, I wasn’t necessarily surprised or upset. Until I opened the feedback panel.

Every single one of the assessors said our idea was a good one. Every single one recommended us for funding. “The application is well structured, convincing, and supported with clear explanations of the project outputs,” wrote one assessor. “EDI is at the heart of the business and is the driver of innovation,” wrote another. The irony just felt cruel. I wasn’t prepared for people to like it, to really get it, and for us to still not get the pot at the end of the rainbow. I had, of course, been warned that this could happen — but I hadn’t at all considered a world in which there would be little to no constructive feedback that I could go away and change.

I’ve written a lot in this newsletter about the importance of feedback, but most often from the frame of the person giving it. A week, two bottles of wine, and countless tears on, it’s the only constructive thing I can come back to — and it’s still the thing that’s irking me. Of course, I’ll keep applying — I am, after all, the person who applied for an award six year years in a row. But it’s on all of us to make that rejection journey easier for people — and we do that by providing constructive feedback when we say no. It isn’t always feasible, but if you can and it’s in your remit, it’s one of the easiest things you can do to help make this industry better.

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• 🚨 Last call to apply for the trainee journalist roles at The Irish Sun and at The Scottish Sun. Both of them pay £25,000pa and they’ll cover your NCTJ Diploma in Journalism, which you’ll study for one day a week.

• Bloomberg has opened up applications for their summer news internship programme and it looks ace. You’ll get hands-on reporting experience for 10 weeks and will be paid £29,500pa FTE.

• The BBC journalist apprenticeships are live again! It’s a Level 7 scheme, so is suitable for anyone who’s finished their A Levels or degree. There are options to apply for the role in Leeds, Orkney, Hull, Cardiff, Glasgow, Salford, Brighton/Guildford, and London. They all pay £25,000pa, plus a £5,164pa living allowance if you’re based in London. Read our guide on applying here.

• The National Federation of Women’s Institutes is hiring for an editorial assistant and you only need to spend one day a week in the office. You’ll be writing tonnes of features and news stories for their platform and will be paid £28,378pa.

• Property Week is looking for a junior reporter to produce and edit regular content for their digital and social media channels. It pays up to £26,000pa and you’ll get to work two days a week from home.

• Future is hiring for a couple of staff writer roles at the moment, where you’ll be putting together a range of news and features for their publications. Having read the job description, we think it’s worth a punt at entry level. There’s a staff writer role at ITPro and another two at PetsRadar. They all pay from £24–28,000pa.

• Billion Media is in need of a multimedia journalist who’ll write pieces for a variety of their client’s websites, which will often require investigative skills and FOIs. They’re paying £22-26,000pa.

• Caters Media Group is a news agency, which means they write copy that ends up in regional, national, and international publications all over the shop. They’re hiring for a journalist and real-life features writer, paying £20–25,000pa.

• Adventurize is looking for a staff writer to work across two publications, Adventure Bike Rider and Wired for Adventure. You’ll focus on written journalism and will be paid £20–25,000pa.

• Cancer Research UK has an advert up for a digital content intern, as part of a 12-week programme from January. You’ll be paid £11.95ph and there’s a big focus on learning and development. Found via MediaBeans.

• And, finally, Sunderland University is hiring a content producer to focus on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. They’re looking for someone who doesn’t mind being on camera and will pay £23,442pa.

• 🚨🏡🕑🌎 Last chance to apply to the digital editor job with New Internationalist, which has managed to use every emoji in our coding system. It pays £30,930.44pa FTE and you’ll work on in-depth journalism about unjust global relationships.

• [AD] If you care about making independent media sustainable, this could be the role for you. Social Streets is in need of a memberships and partnerships manager who’ll have a big impact on the publication. It pays £26,000pa.

• Real Homes has an advert up for an editor to inspire an audience of millennials and Gen Z on how they can make their homes nicer. Yes, even if it’s a tiny rental. It pays £33-45,000pa and they say it’s a perfect first editor job.

• International Property Media is in need of a digital editor to take control of a new digital publication, working alongside its social media manager to create the most engaging content. They’re paying £27–29,000pa.

• TES, aka Times Educational Supplement, is looking for a deputy head of editorial content curation. You’ll maximise reach using SEO, as well as work across social media. It’s a 12-month parental leave cover and pays £35–42,000pa.

• A couple from Future this week. There’s a managing editor role at GoCompare, where you’ll make sure all content is user-focused and has the right tone of voice. We also imagine you’ll spend all day blocking that jingle out. It pays £26–36,000pa.

• There’s also a content editor gig with Laptop Mag which can be done from either Bath or Cardiff, which pays up to £30,000pa. Woman & Home, also a Future publication, is looking for a deputy editor for digital, paying £33–40,000pa.

• Cosaris is hiring a journalist with three years of experience to write articles, conduct interviews, and do copywriting for a variety of customer projects. The role pays £26–32,000pa.

• FORWARD champions the equality and rights of African women and girls in the UK, Europe, and Africa. They’re in need of a digital communications officer who will grow their digital presence and inspire people to engage with their cause. It pays £27,500–£29.850pa.

• ITV is hiring a digital content editor to work in Jersey, where there are some wonderful outdoor pools (but that probably isn’t the focus of the job. You’ll champion their news website and be paid £36,359–49,343pa.

• And, finally, Caters Media Group is looking for a senior journalist to work for the agency, with your stories sold to outlets across the globe. It pays up to £32,000pa.

• 🚨 There are just a few days left to apply for the international reporter role with NBCUniversal. You’ll be based in London but will mainly cover stories about the Middle East. It pays in excess of £54,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 🕑 All the roles at the Local Storytelling Exchange close this week, so get a wiggle on! They’re hiring storytellers in both Scotland and Kent/Sussex/East Anglia. You’ll work to find stories of the green energy transition and then work with news partners across the UK to tell the stories. It pays £64,000pa FTE.

• 🚨🏡 🕑 They’re also hiring a content manager who’ll work to repackage their library of person-centred climate stories to engage even more audiences. Again, it’s £64,000pa FTE, which works out at £38,400pa for a three-day week.

• 🏡 Our World In Data has an advert live for a communications and outreach manager who will help to display their work in innovative and engaging ways, as well as manage their social media channels. It pays £45–65,000pa.

• This is a new role as a financial editor with a global financial services company, working to publish releases to the company website. It pays £50–57,000pa DOE.

• This is a senior content manager and copywriter job with Key Group — again a financial services brand, they’ve got all the dollar. It pays up to £45,000pa.

• There’s a joke to be made here, but I haven’t quite worked it out yet. However, Eton College, off of posh people, is looking for a head of communications. The role pays up to £60,000pa and I’ll take any submissions of jokes in the comments.

• 🏡 And, finally, this is a social media specialist gig, focused on the gaming industry. You’ll be working on social marketing campaigns across a variety of platforms and it pays up to £47,000pa.

• 🏡 This is a great gig with Elite Soccer, which is in need of an editor. You’ll edit copy from coaches for every month and will be paid £1-1,500 per issue, depending on experience. Plus, it’s remote working.

• The Orchard Agency is looking for a freelance content editor who will work on materials for a “prestigious university”. It pays up to £200 a day.

• Searchability is advertising a content writer role for someone who is passionate about sneakers, to work with a lifestyle brand on articles, blogs and product descriptions. Again, it pays up to £200 a day.

• If you happen to have a science teaching qualification, Research Publishing International is looking for a freelance writer to write a series of scripts based on the GCSE Science curriculum. 

• Know your Love Island from your Love is Blind? Can you reel off movie recommendation lists in an instant? Or are comics your thing? ScreenRant has a bunch of freelance writer roles open here. 

• Metro.co.uk’s Kya Buller is always looking for great opinion pieces to commission.

• Travel writers: Katie Hammel and co. are selecting their next round of pitches for Going’s Worth the Flight weekly newsletter, which highlights one amazing experience worth travelling for.

• Jake Kleinman from Inverse is looking for features to run between now and the end of the year. Pitches can be about anything in TV, film, gaming, science, or tech — and there are also some more specific topics Jake wants to hear about.

• Fabulous Magazine’s Jess Wilson wants real-life/investigations/features pitches for across the publications — including the magazine, paper, and online.

• For writers in Ireland, Katy Harrington is on the lookout for timely lifestyle feature pitches for the Irish Independent. 

• Jeremy Berke from Cultivated — the newsletter on all things cannabis — wants to hear from writers about topics the newsletter should be covering. 

• Feet in 2 Worlds is seeking narrative audio tales on immigrants navigating the climate crisis.

• Matt Broomfield is open to pitches for the short-form Currents section in the next edition of the New Internationalist.

• And, finally, the Football Association has a tonne of freelance opportunities currently live. This was found via the wonderful MediaBeans.

• 🚨 🎪 It’s also your last chance to grab tickets for our event on AI with Sonya Barlow. Snag a ticket here to find out about tools that can make your working life easier and more impactful — as well as understand what’s coming down the track.

• 🎪 Also coming up in the next few months is our session on how to start and grow your own podcast, practical tips on how to self-edit your own work, getting your first paid byline, and breaking into film criticism.

• 🎪🆓 This looks like an incredibly wholesome event! Freelancers aged 18-30 in London can go on a walk around Tottenham Marshes together to decompress.

• 🚨 This week is the deadline for the Creative Access x ITV mentoring programme, which offers the chance of six months of mentoring from someone within the TV industry. It’s for aspiring and emerging talent in TV.

• 🚨 Both of the Curtis Brown Creative scholarships close this week. There’s a novel-writing scholarship for people of colour and one for writers with low incomes, both offering a place on their three-month writing course.

• 🚨 Last one from Creative Access. The Thrive: Freelance Development Programme closes this week and is a three-year programme of support for mid- to senior-level freelancers who want to propel their careers forward.

• 🚨 It’s also the last call for mentoring via Arts Emergency. It’s for 16-18-year-olds from marginalised backgrounds who want to work in the creative industries — this includes journalism, we’ve checked!

• 🚨 Also closing in the next seven days is the scholarship for the Iceland Writers Retreat. They offer both full and partial scholarships to allow you to spend five days delving into your writing and improving it.

• 🚨 The Open Notebook is offering a remote fellowship for early-career science writers. You’ll plan, report, and write pieces for the site on a part-time basis and will be paid US$6,000 for the ten-month programme.

• 🚨 The end of the month is the deadline for the International Labour Organisation’s Global Media Competition. They’re looking for stories about labour migration and fair recruitment, with prizes of up to US$1,200.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Creative Bursary Awards, offering £2,500 to young creatives to work on a project that will benefit children, young people, and communities in the area.

• 🚨 The deadline for the Earth Investigations Programme is just two days away! They’ll fund cross-border teams of professional journalists to conduct investigations into European environmental affairs.

• 🚨 One more thing that’s closing — the National Film and Television School is running a Diverse Writers Development Programme, to support new screenwriting talent for TV dramas. It’s a ten-week programme, which will pay you £1,000 a week while you take part.

• Unbound Firsts is back open — it’s a new imprint for debut writers of colour. You can submit either fiction or non-fiction and will receive a book advance of £1,000, a 50 per cent share of all profits, and mentoring.

• A reminder — if you’re thinking of applying to the BBC’s journalism apprenticeships, we’ve written a guide for that, packed with advice from people who’ve completed the process successfully.

• I also enjoyed this piece from Chris Stokel-Walker a lot, looking at how our inboxes became just a PR binfire.