Jobs and Opps at CNN, ITV Wales, Alliance News, The Lowry, And Many, Many More 🏊
Everything you should apply for this week and beyond.
[Apologies, there’s no introduction to this newsletter this week — it’s been a bit of a day. We were in the process of switching to a new provider and leaving Substack, but our new provider accidentally ate our first draft of the email and after re-building it at 4pm it seems to have temporarily disabled our ability to send emails (we’re guessing as our list is quite hefty).
Either way, we can’t use the intro we were going to send you as… it was about leaving Substack and hey! Here we still are! We’ve decided to send it here so you can still get these listings today and apply for jobs which close soon — hopefully we’ll be back in your inbox next week from a shiny new membership platform. I’m off for a swim in what is now torrential rain 🥲
Jem x]
[EVENT] Everything You Need To Know About The NCTJ
If we had a pound for every time we were asked about the NCTJ Diploma and if it’s worth it, we’d be quids in. So, we’ve decided to team up with our friends at PA Media Academy for a free, no-questions-barred ask-me-anything so you can work out if it’s the right route for you. Join us to find out everything you ever wanted to know about the course, who should (and shouldn’t) take it, and how to get funding.
Key: 🚨 Closes Soon 🏡 Remote Working 🌎 Global Opp 🕐 Part-Time 🎪 Event
🏴 Wales 🏴 Scotland 🍀 Northern Ireland 🏢 London 🇪🇺 Europe
🚨 🏴 Apologies this one has only just come up on our radar — it closes at 10am tomorrow but we’ve included it as it looks pretty fun! As a press officer/assistant for the Edinburgh Fringe, you’ll work with them for the six weeks of the programme at an hourly rate of £12-12.50ph plus pro-rated holiday pay.
[AD] There isn’t too long left to apply for this broadcast journalism trainee role with United Christian Broadcasters. They’re based in Stoke-on-Trent and are offering a starting salary of £23,000pa.
🏢 [AD] Alliance News is looking for a reporter to focus on business news, covering companies, markets, and economics. It’s a company with a global focus so there’s tonnes to get stuck into. The pay starts at £26,000pa.
There are a bunch of entry-level jobs at the BBC this week, as both researchers and coordinators. Both roles help make the broadcaster’s journalism possible and are a great route to progress. There are roles at BBC Radio Wiltshire (pays £24,039–29,150pa), with BBC Teach (pays up to £32,000pa), and with the Jihadist Media Team (pays £24,039–34,039pa)
This is a PR assistant role focused on building relationships with journalists, keeping up with social media trends, and monitoring the news. It pays £27,000pa and is for a “well-established brand” but your guess is as good as ours.
🏢 CNN has opened up their next round of journalism internships, starting in September. There are roles across the newsroom across features, digital news, programming and more and they last for six months. It pays £28,000pa.
🏴 This is a trainee journalist role at ITV in Cardiff and there are two 12-month contracts available. You’ll be paid £23,477–27,909pa to develop your journalism skills by creating content for Instagram, TikTok, and S4C Digital. You’ll need to speak Welsh for this one!
🏡 The role with the Midsomer Norton and Radstock Journal is remote but as it’s a community-focused reporter gig, you will need to be based in the patch in Somerset. You’ll focus on creating multimedia content and will be paid £21,029pa.
SWNS is one of the country’s largest news agencies and sends stories to national and international publications. There’s a role open with them for a features writer, which they say is an entry-level role and will be paid £23,800pa.
And, finally, My Furniture is hiring a junior digital content creator to work across Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. We can't help but feel there's something super wholesome about working for a furniture brand — this one also pays up to £30,000pa.
🕐 🏴 One Parent Families Scotland is hiring a digital content writer and editor to develop support and advice content for single parents. You’ll be paid £25,111–30,691pa FTE and they seem flexible on some home-working alongside the Edinburgh office.
[AD] The Henley Standard in Oxfordshire has an opening for a senior reporter/news editor to set the news agenda and lead their small team. It pays £25–30,000pa.
How could we not include an opportunity at Chester Zoo?! The team needs a content creator to focus on producing short-form video content for their two million social media followers. It pays £34,711.57; a very specific amount, I know.
🍀 ITV is hiring an on-screen journalist in Belfast to be the face of quality news in the region, coming with original ideas about how to best present the biggest stories of the day. The role pays £27,909–52,303pa.
🏢 The Independent has an advert up for a video journalist working on long-form video shoots, social media cuts, and everything in between. It pays £30,000pa.
🏢 Two news writer jobs on offer with Future this week; there’s a role working with Homes & Gardens on their Solved vertical (pays £26,000pa) and another with Ideal Home (pays £26–28,000pa).
🏡 [AD] There isn’t too much longer left to apply for this senior reporter job with Chemical Watch & Insight. It seems to focus on environmental impacts, which seems like a super interesting beat and it pays £35–38,000pa.
The Lowry is looking for a digital content manager in Salford to lead their digital strategies. As well as getting paid £30,499pa you’ll also get free tickets to their shows.
🏡 🏴 [AD] A reminder for the regional reporter roles at Hyphen. They’re a new publisher focusing on quality journalism for Muslim communities. For this round of hiring they’re interested in hearing from journalists based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, or Liverpool. Pays £30–40,000pa.
🏢 [AD] Hyphen is also hiring a multimedia producer in London on a one-year fixed-term contract, working across their website and socials. Again, pays £30–40,000pa.
🏢 [AD] Last one from our pals at Hyphen this week; this is a new role as a social media and audience development manager, requiring about three years of experience across journalism and socials. It pays £35–45,000pa.
And just to wrap up with a few BBC jobs there’s a digital sports journalist role open in Salford which will focus specifically on the English Football League. It’s a Band C role and pays £26,975–42,080pa.
There’s also a newsreader gig that’s just gone live with BBC Radio Surrey in Guildford and we’re duty-bound to tell you there’s also an amazing outdoor pool nearby. It pays up to £31,000pa and you’ll be part of their breakfast output.
🏴 And this really is the final one; BBC Extend, the scheme to bring more disabled and neurodivergent voices to the public broadcaster, has another role open in Cardiff. This one’s for a content producer with BBC Radio Wales and pays £32,047–38,000pa.
🏢Just under a week to apply for this communications manager gig at B Lab UK. They’re the team behind the B Corp Movement, which includes brands such as Tony’s Chocoloney, WeTransfer, and Innocent Drinks. It pays £46,280–48,000pa.
Project Storm promises to be a “talent-led documentary that outlines a hopeful plan for solving the climate crisis” to be aired on the BBC. It needs an assistant producer with directing experience who will be paid £41–50,000pa.
This is a senior communications specialist job where you’ll develop content for social media, websites, and other editorial. You’ll also be working on both video and photo content and it pays up to £50,000pa.
🏡 Ruth is on the hunt for more fitness stories for fitandwell.com and has outlined exactly the sort of stuff they cover. Rates vary, but it’s typically £100 for a 400-word first-person story.
🏡 Glamour Mag UK is looking for pitches for “intriguing, clicky, confessional, first-person pieces”. They usually pay about £200 per opinion piece.
🏡 🌎Abid Haque is editing the first print issue of Groovevolt and is open to pitches across cultural commentary, fashion and music, and more. Rates depend on the story’s length and complexity but range from US$75–500. Send pitches by July 1.
🏡 🌎Thomas Germain is covering AI, privacy, and life under the algorithms for the BBC and says that he’ll occasionally be commissioning tech features.
🏡 GQ’s Oli Franklin-Wallis is always open to feature pitches.
🏡 Tom Rowley is commissioning for the third issue of Backstory, a magazine about all things books and bookshops. It pays £150 for 400–500-word columns and £500 for 1,000–1,500-word features. You’ll need to send a pitch by June 21 to be considered.
🏡 🌎R ohan Banerjee wants to hear your culture-tech stories for Digital Frontier. They’re looking for pitches about subjects where tech is changing the way we engage with arts, politics, sport, and society.
Voicemag.co.uk is hiring an editor to support the young people who write for the online magazine, which focuses on pathways into the creative industries. It pays £20ph.
🏡 🌎 Insider’s Conz Preti is looking for pitches from American parents living abroad about their experiences of summer camps/holidays with children. It pays US$250, and get in touch before the end of June.
🏢 Empire Cosmic is hiring a freelance writer’s assistant to cover off a bunch of stuff from editing social media videos and managing Discord communities to admin around accounts. It pays the London Living Wage.
🏡 This education marketing company is looking for a freelance social media manager well-versed in TikTok to work 12 hours per week. It pays £900–1,000 per month.
🏢 And, finally, this is an assistant copywriter job focusing on food content based in Paddington, London. It pays up to £150 a day and lasts for three months.
The UCL East London Scholarship has returned for another year, offering free tuition fees and a maintenance grant of up to £15,700. There’s a super interesting range of courses including immersive factual storytelling, podcasts, and ethnography and documentary filmmaking. It’s taking so much to stop myself from applying to this.
🎪 🏡 [AD] Our friends at News Associates have started promoting their next free workshop; this one’s on podcasting with The News Agents’ Laura Fitzpatrick and The Personal Best Podcast’s Ruby Smith. Get your free tickets here.
🎪 [AD] There’s also not long left to grab tickets to the event with our friends at Pioneer’s Post. It’s all about how to tell stories that make a social impact.
🏡As we trailed last week, the WFTV Fearless Leadership Programme is now open. It’s for women working in film and TV who want to take the next step into senior leadership and we know amazing JR readers have been successful before.
🚨 🌎 🎪 Happening right now is our workshop with the wonderful Faima Bakar about how you can actually make money on Substack. We’ll be looking at how to come up with the right idea, when to go paid, and how to grow an audience.
🚨 🌎 🎪 Also coming up next week is our workshop with the LMAOnaise Comedyfounder Zoe Paskett about how to write engaging reviews. We’ll be talking about finding your voice as a critic, alternative ways of reviewing, and ethics.
🎪 And, coming up later on in our Journo Resources events programme, we’ll be digging into FOIs, asking if you need an NCTJ, helping you manage your freelance workload, and exploring how to investigate greenwashing and climate pledges.
🚨 🌎 The Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award closes soon. It’s an award for war correspondents working in any medium, with 10 prizes of up to €10,000 up for grabs.
🚨 🌎 It’s also your last chance to apply to the Plural+ Youth Video Festival. The themes for this year’s call focus on migration, diversity, and social inclusion.
🇪🇺 The Climate Arena Fellowship is open again for people with ideas for collaborative investigative and/or data stories. You’ll join the Climate Arena Conference in Bologna to workshop your idea and get up to €2,000 to make it happen.
There are a bunch of Creative Mentor Network schemes currently open, matching you with creative professions from marketing, film, and TV, amongst others. Check out the schemes for Brighton, Oxford, and Manchester.
And, finally, a reminder that the Aziz Foundation Scholarships are currently open for applications. They provide full tuition fees for MA journalism courses for British Muslims.
And, if you're looking for an evening read, our wonderful fellow Angela takes a deep dive into breaking into journalism as a parent and how the industry needs to change.