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For me, 2022 was hard. I lost my wonderful Nana, who I was incredibly close to. Experiencing intense grief for the first time means I am entering a new year feeling perhaps a little less whole if, indeed, that makes any sense.

I suppose, in some ways, it has also shifted my perspective regarding goals and achievements — and what really matters. Sorry, a bit cliché, I know, but it is the start of the year after all. So although I do have work-related goals, I have also decided to introduce what I am terming the “three F’s” going forward.

This year, rather than taking anything away or cutting anything out, I will just be adding things. Too often, our resolutions focus on health and fitness goals that involve a degree of self-restraint or discipline. For me, 2023 is all about the abundance mindset. So, here are my three F’s:

• Fun Goals: Doing more things that bring me joy. Potential activities: reading more romantic comedies and self-help books rather than things I think I should be reading. Baking from a box — I’ve accepted I can’t bake, but I love doing it all the same. Pottery painting — I did this a few times last year and loved it. Running for fun more without tracking my workouts, and building more LEGO.

• Friends Goals: 2022 reminded me how much I value my friends and how grounded they make me feel — but also how easy it is amidst a “busy adult life” to neglect meetups because they can be tricky to organise. So, I will be gatekeeping more time to see friends.

• Firsts Goals: Just some things I want to do for the first time. For now, there are five of them (to keep with the “F” theme) — go to the cinema solo, go roller skating in the park, go cold-water swimming, volunteer at Parkrun, and make coffee with a Moka pot.

Whatever your approach to New Year’s resolutions, I’d love to hear what you’re adding this year — especially if they have nothing to do with work or journalism. You can join the chat over on Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn — or I’m always open to a chat over email too.

🚨🎪 [EVENT] Exploring Options Outside Of Journalism

Have you started 2023 with a niggling feeling you might want to change career? Or perhaps you’re freelance and want to top up your income in other ways? Jack Dearlove returns next week to re-run his exclusive session on how to use your journalism skills elsewhere. We’ll look at transferable skills, paths in other industries, and how to plan your next steps. Tickets are available to watch live or watch back.

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If you’d like to work on stories that have a big impact in Westminster, join Abzed. A story they placed in several papers last year cost Drax Plc £280m and provided early question marks about Kwasi Kwarteng’s judgment. Their mission is to improve policy-making by bringing to light aspects which have been missed. They’re currently hiring for full-and part-time roles, paying £40–50,000pa FTE. Apply by Sunday.

• The Daily Mail has opened up its editorial trainee scheme for 2023, with roles on the paper, The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline. There are roles for news and sports reporters, as well as sub-editors. Pay is above £20,000pa while training, with regular pay rises.

• 🚨 Last call for The Financial Times Paul McLean Graduate Trainee Programme, which also closes this Sunday. You’ll be given a whole host of training and placements, including an overseas posting. Salary starts at £28,000pa. Read our guide to the scheme here.

• The Maidenhead Advertiser and The Slough & Windsor Express are looking for a news reporter to join the team in one of the UK’s most varied news patches. You’ll be paid £19,525–22,634pa.

• Outlook Publishing is looking for a trainee website editor to work on its content for a variety of business and travel publications worldwide. Pays £20,000pa.

• Today’s Media is looking for a digital journalist to specialise in the legal sector. You’ll write, sub-edit, and work on social media. Pays £20–22,000pa.

• Property Week is looking for a reporter. You’ll need a portfolio of high-quality pieces, but other than that it seems like it could fit someone looking for their first role. Pays up to £26,000pa.

• Moneyfacts.co.uk is looking for a content writer to join them and help consumers get to grips with stuff like mortgages and other types of finance. Pays £23–25,000pa.

• The Channel 4 Apprenticeship Schemes are now live and there are tonnes of them. A few highlights include digital marketing at Channel 4 or All4 (£22,992pa), social media at 4Studio (£20,972pa), picture editing (£20,972pa), and marketing (£22,992pa). Tonnes more listed on the Creative Access site here.

• Sport and Green Tree and Nautical is looking for an editorial assistant. Pays £25,000pa.

• Finally, Swan Films is looking for a trainee researcher to help them with working on factual TV programmes like Grayson’s Art Club and The Last Igloo. Pays £470 per week.

• 🚨 The Criminal Justice Alliance is looking for a communications and engagement manager, but the role closes this Sunday, so act fast! You’ll be working across their website, newsletter, and social and it pays £35–40,000pa.

• 🚨 🏡 🇪🇺The wonderful people at Investigate Europe are looking for an audience engagement producer to help them engage their readers better and reach more people. You’ll be paid €36–48,000pa depending on where you’re based.

• 🏡 Citizens Advice is looking for a senior press officer and they’re pretty flexible about where you’re based in England and Wales. You’ll be working on projects that have a real impact on helping real people and be paid £39,731pa, as well as a £1,500 on-call allowance and up to £3,520 London weighing if applicable.

• 🏡 Don’t forget that Just Like Us is looking for a social media manager to join their team and work on their social media presence as well as reacting to breaking news in the LGBTQ+ space. Pays £33,600pa.

• Metro.co.uk is looking for a senior video producer to join their team and help to grow their social video output. Pays £36,000pa.

• SciDev.Net is looking for a features editor to work on collaborative investigative features that have a global impact. Pays £38–45,000pa.

• I am such a BBC Worklife fan, I couldn’t ignore this one. They’re hiring a deputy editor to edit daily reported features and commission new content. Applications are accepted in both London (£48,516–82,144) and New York ($80–95,000pa).

• There’s also a great job with BBC Radio 1 and BBC Sounds as a social media executive, working across videos, memes, and moments. Pays £25,670–50,313pa.

• If you’re looking for your next step in local or regional news, Newsquest is looking for a digital content editor based in Hampshire to build its digital presence. They’re paying up to £28,000pa.

• Campaign, which covers the PR and marketing industry, is looking for a tech editor to produce news, features, and analysis across all platforms. It pays up to £40,000pa and, honestly, I think it sounds fascinating.

• Finally, The Bookseller is looking for a news reporter and say it’s perfect for your second or third role. You’ll be paid £25,000pa and they’re pretty flexible about where you work according to the advert.

• 🚨🏡 Last chance to apply for the politics editor job at Full Fact this week. You’ll be paid £41,400–51,400pa and will lead coverage of misinformation across UK politics, covering everything from the PMQs to the economy.

• 🚨🏡🕑 Abzed is looking for media relations managers to work on stories that have a big impact in Westminster. Previous scoops have landed in The Guardian and beyond, and they’re open to remote working. Pays £40–50,000pa with both full- and part-time roles available.

• 🚨🏡 Also closing this Sunday (big day) is the senior editor gig at Astra Content. They’re paying £60–65,000pa for someone to head up a client publication focused on technology and marketing.

• 🚨🏡 Astra Content also has an engagement editor job open too, where you’ll be focused on the marketing of a digital publication in the marketing and tech space. Again, it’s remote-working and pays £55–60,000pa.

• Two senior-level BBC jobs here. They are looking for an executive product manager and an executive product manager (growth) to work on the news and sports team to help grow their audience and serve them better. Pays £48,516–82,144pa.

• The PRI is looking for an editor to take the reins on their content which covers the world of investment. Pays £45–55,000pa.

• There’s a content strategist role here which is paying up to £55,000pa. It’s for a business and they’re looking for someone focused on social media.

• Finally, Velocity Black magazine is looking for an editorial director. They focus on all things luxury lifestyle and are paying £50,000pa and up.

• Healthline is looking for mental health pitches for a series called ‘You Are Not Alone’. Rates start at US$300 depending on the scope of the project.

• The House magazine covers all things Parliament and is always looking for new pitches and ideas.

• Slow Ways is looking to commission stories centred around walking routes and community. There are tonnes of examples of what they’re looking for on the brief and the pay is £2,000.

• Angela Chen is looking for pitches for Wired Ideas again. This is the US version, so rates start at US$500 — send them your zaniest ideas for size.

• British GQ is looking for freelancers to pitch tech content this year. Send them your ideas for covering fancy TVs or fancy gadgets.

• There’s a freelance copywriter role here paying up to £300 a day.

• Ian Gordon is looking for pitches at Mother Jones and they have a pretty comprehensive pitch document.

• Linseed Journal is again looking for pitches before the end of the month. The theme this time is olives and you can read all the info in their pitch guide.

• Rolling Stone is looking for pitches around internet culture and influencers.

• Submissions are also still live until the end of the month for jfa magazine’s Autonomy issue. It’s £50 a piece, so one for those just starting out.

• The Daily Beast is looking for pitches for their Obsessed section, covering all things pop culture. Rates start from US$250.

• Want to write something about Link’s Awakening, the Game Boy game? Paul Murphy wants someone to do a few hundred works for his book. Pays £100.

• Trails Magazine is looking for pitches, primarily around North American destinations, and has a great guide. They pay at least US$0.50 a word and also accept photo submissions as well.

• There’s an £80 fee on offer for transfeminine writers who would like to write for Oestrogeneration’s first print issue. The theme is tenacity.

• The Body is looking for pitches that are relevant to the HIV community, with rates going up to US$600 for deep dives.

• And, finally, Container Magazine is looking for ideas that explore technology and its creative uses. Their rates are £300 per 1,000 words.

• 🎪 Don’t forget our first event of the year is next week! Join Jack Dearlove as we explore industries related to journalism, why you might consider them, and how to take your next steps to go from journalism to somewhere else.

• The Youth Music NextGen Fund is back, offering up to £2,500 to young creatives to make their ideas happen. You need to be 18-25 and have an idea of a project you’d like to start which relates to music in someway.

• The Aziz Foundation is now open for applications for their 2023/24 programme. They fund 100 percent of the tuition fees for British Muslims studying some journalism masters courses.

• Voltage Revolution is running a digital creative and wellbeing programme for young black creatives aged 18-25 to give them the knowledge they need to succeed on their creative journey.

• The Peggy Girshman Idea Grant is back open again, from the National Association of Science Writers in the US. They offer up to US$15,000 for projects that will help their career and the field of science writing. Projects must be accessible to US-based science writers.

• The Guardian’s Hugo Young Award opens again next week and closes a month later. It’s for the best political writing and has now been broadened out from just MA students. There’s a cash prize on offer.

• Not long left to apply for the 2023 Sigma Awards, which recognise the best in data journalism across the world. There’s US$5,000 to be split between winners and a trip to the International Journalism Festival in Italy.

• 🎪🆓 Our wonderful friends at News Associates are running a free Q&A about postgraduate pathways into journalism. It’s hosted remotely and you’ll get to ask all the questions you ever had about getting into the industry.

• New York University has opened applications to the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Awards. It has a prize fund of US$12,500 and international journalists are welcome to apply.

• And, finally, The Reuters Institute at The University of Oxford has opened applications for its journalist fellowship programme. You’ll spend three to six months in Oxford working on a project, with your fees covered.

• The latest edition of Representology Journal has landed, and it’s always worth a read. Expect tonnes of ideas and commentary on how we make journalism better.

• We’ve also done a full explainer on how to prepare for an MA journalism interview if that’s something that’s currently on your radar. We also did a guide on how to apply in the first place here.

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