Jobs and Opps at Bustle, The Big Issue, Wonkhe, Digital Spy and Many More 🐧
Everything you need to apply for this week and beyond 🌅
Last week I spent some time with the new cohort of journalism students at Goldsmiths University. Thanks to COVID, it was a toned down freshers’ welcome, but the weather held enough to sit in the park and drink beer for a few hours. I’m always game for anything that involves freebies and meeting new people, and it felt genuinely wonderful to actually meet new people again IRL.
It’s been a while since I’ve spoken to new people about Journo Resources, and I still find it a weird conversation to have. Unlike other roles I’ve held, it tends to come with more explaining. What does Journo Resources do? How long have I done it? Why did I set it up? I genuinely love talking about this job and think it’s a vital way to check that we’re doing the right things, but still spend half the time worrying like I sound like I’m showing off or that I’m boring people to death. A lot of the questions don’t have short and simple answers.
On the flip side of the coin, occasionally I come across people who do know us, which is a bizarre experience in itself. I feel simultaneously incredibly excited and awkward as people tell me they read this very section of the newsletter every week. As someone who spends all day working in my own house, it’s weird to see the proof that this does somehow end up in the real world. I’ve been sending this newsletter out for five years now, and I’m so grateful to have someone reading it and making it ‘real’. Whether you’ve been with us five years or five months, thank you so much for joining us.
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Ever felt like you should be getting paid more? Or wondered how to make the next step in your journalism career? Our workshop with Isabella Silvers this evening will give you all the skills you need to progress and build your own community, with specific advice for women and people of colour too. Join us live or watch back later.
🚨 Last chance for my favourite gig in the grad scheme cycle. Applications close next Monday for the Falkland Islands TV gig as a broadcast reporter, paying £1,342.50pm with subsidised accommodation and free flights.
The Big Issue have launched some Kickstart placements to work on a new youth-led journalism project. It’s 35 hours a week, and far as I can read, 25 are at National Minimum Wage and the other ten at London Living Wage.
Newsquest are looking for a digital reporter, and while the salary is quite high for a regional job (£25-30,000), the requirements absolutely aren’t out of reach for someone just out of training. Full details here.
🏡 Wonkhe, who focus on higher education policy, are looking for an editorial assistant. They’re paying £25,000pa and it’s a fully remote role.
🚨 When I say it closes today here I mean today. If you’d like to make videos for Charlton Athletic Community Trust and get paid up to £24,000pa send a note this way sharpish.
🚨 🏡 Last call for if you’d like to be a journalist at The Business Desk, which looks like a great way to develop a specialism and a patch. Pays £23-27,000pa.
🏡 Our pals at I Like Networking are looking for a content producer through the Kickstart scheme, working on newsletter, social and video. Pays National Minimum Wage.
There’s also an editorial assistant role up for grabs with Cogora, where you will be working across multiple healthcare brands. It pays up to £22,000pa.
The Walt Disney Company are offering a digital media internship, if you have a a degree which allows you to take a year out. Pays £21,000pa
Slightly niche, but they specifically mention how you don’t need a degree. Archant are looking for a writer for their shooting titles. They’re paying £24,000pa and you’ll be half working from home.
🚨 🏡 One last one that’s closing – the audience assistant role for The Conversation in Wales looks like a great chance to help launch a new part of an established platform. Pays £13,000pa for 2.5 days a week.
Not a full time gig, but a great opp. Music For Youth are looking for a social media reporter for a one off gig covering The Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. It pays National Minimum Wage and you’ll get training too.
And, finally, a junior reporter job here for a B2B publisher focused on healthcare. It’s a good way to build a specialism and pays up to £22,000pa.
🚨 This is your last call for the editor job at Step Communications. There’s a really decent salary of £30-42,000pa and you’ll be managing multiple publications.
Women in Sport are looking for a digital manager to transform their online presence. It pays £35,000pa and looks like a really worthwhile job.
Getting into investigations is always tricky, but there’s a great second job opp here as the investigations reporter at the East Anglian Daily Times. Pays £28,000pa.
More of the investigative variety here. SourceMaterial are looking for a senior investigative journalist to focus on oil and gas. They’re paying £55,000pa. There’s also an investigations editor gig at Construction News that pays up to £38,000pa.
Okay, so I’m not saying it’s ridiculous that Domino’s aren’t offering free pizza when you’re working for them, but you get my drift… They’re looking for a food and digital comms specialist, paying £32-36,414pa plus discounts.
Bustle UK are looking for an editorial manager to shape their day-to-day content, as well as commission and edit pieces. Pays £40-45,000pa.
🏡 The Bible Society are looking for a copywriter to reach new audiences, and there’s the flexibility to work from home. Pays £28-33,000pa.
🚨 🏡 Last chance to be Wales Editor at The Conversation, where you’ll be heading up a new team and developing the platform. Pays £32,000pa.
🚨 Also last orders for the production manager job with Twig, who are offering £35,000pa and you’ll help make content seen around the globe.
🚨 Everything really is closing today. The Bureau’s Global Health Reporter role closes literally today so fire that cover letter and CV off right now. Pays £44-48,000pa.
Do you know everything there is to know about trains? Railway Gazette are looking for an industry editor to join the team and it pays £40,000pa.
I grew up in Devon, so remember seeing ads for the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) so here’s a job with them! They need a web editor and will pay £31,316pa.
The Economist are looking for a newsletter editor, which sounds like a wonderful gig. It pays £30-35,000pa.
Tes are looking for a correspondent to generate stories, investigations and analysis on all things education. Pays £30,000pa.
🏡 This one is listed as perfect for students with a knowledge of law, writing content for LegalVisions’s website. They’re paying up to £20 an hour and can offer up to three days of work a week.
Ben Smoke is looking for pitches on climate change and the fight against it, especially communities that don’t have a presence on the international stage.
On Spec podcast are looking for pitches for their next series on borders. They pay $1,000. Worth noting they already have a UK story lined up, so stories from elsewhere will be put to the front.
A couple of well paid shifts here. This one is a three month copywriter contract at £300-350 a day, while this content editor one pays up to £186 a day. There’s also one for a content producer / social media editor for up to £285 a day.
Got thoughts on No Time To Die or other movie stuff? Send your ideas Gabriella at Digital Spy this way.
A great initiative from the combined forces of Sonia Weiser and DAME Magazine. They’re looking for pitches from people all over the globe who have no professional bylines yet. Pays $150-300.
SuperParent are looking for pitches about family-friendly video gaming, parenting and technology. Pays $100-250 per piece.
Women and Home back in the newsletter again, this time they’re looking for freelance travel writers who are available for both shifts and one-off commissions. Details over this way.
Fancy some shifts with The Telegraph as a sub-editor to work on their online news? Or, if you’d rather some sub-editing shifts at Stylist, you can find them this way.
TripSavvy are looking to add to their roster of freelance writers, and you’ll be working on about ten stories a month. Pays from $75-300 a piece.
AFAR have also updated their pitch guidelines too. They focus on a range of travel stories and pay 50 cents a word.
And, finally, if you’ve got more of an exercise routine than me, Ben Allen is looking for pitches for British GQs Fitness Diary slot.
🚨 🎪 Don’t forget to get your tickets for tonight’s event! Isabella Silver is running a workshop on how to get pay rises, plan your career and more.
The next round of the LEDE Fellowship is open and offering up to $3,500 USD for projects around the world that help further solutions journalism. We won this in 2019/20 for our interactive game. Here’s our application.
Are you an editor at student publication? Applications are now open for News Associates’s next round of their student media editorial leadership course which is a free five week programme to prepare you for the industry.
🚨 There’s no set closing date for this, but the first session is in November, so I’d recommend booking now. The Headlines Network are running weekly mental health workshops for people at all stages of the media. Apply here.
🎪 Thinking about going freelance but worried about how to make the jump? Join us for an event with Amelia Tait and Lateefah Jean Baptiste about how to successfully become a freelance journalist.
🚨 Yes, I know we said this before, but they extended the deadline not me. The British Journalism Awards actually close on October 8. It’s free to enter if you’re a woman, disabled, or from a non-white background.
🎪 Want to work more climate stories into your reporting but not sure how? Join Kira Taylor for this run through on how to cover climate change, including everything from policy to solutions journalism.
The NCTJ Awards for excellence are back open and there’s a pretty long deadline to apply. Loads of categories for students and trainees.
The Royal Television Society Student Television Awards are open again for their 2022 awards. Again, this is a long lead one closing in November.
Run a podcast for a publisher? The Publisher Podcast Awards are open again and you have until December to enter. Plus, there’s a jazzy do.
Want to join Delicate Rebellions Collective but money is a barrier? You can apply for a pay it forward place here, which includes 12 months of mentoring and career support for creatives.
🚨 It’s your final chance to apply for the Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship at Human Rights Watch, which closes on Friday. You’ll be working on human rights projects across the globe.
Can sharing office costs help rebuild trust in journalism? Our very own Tom Taylor takes a look at a potential new solution.
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