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A whole host of lovely opportunities for this week.

Jem here again with you this week — I hope this email finds you well, and basking in the sunshine somewhere. In the midst of an exceptionally busy week, the warmer air and Pantone blue skies have been a great motivator: not only to keep going and push through, but to make sure I actually see the outside world. I write this to you shortly after an afternoon jaunt around the park near my house. For some bizarre reason, I concluded my 27°C stroll with the purchase of a hot chocolate. It was great.

My last week feels like it’s passed in a complete blur of emails and typing. For the most part, I’ve felt like my hands have been welded to the keyboard. As well as a grant application I still need to file this evening, I’ve continued a seemingly endless process of providing feedback to applicants for our fellowship. Explaining to friends and family that I’m currently in the middle of writing 200 personal feedback emails, a lot of them have firmly told me I’ve lost the plot. “It’s time to standardise,” my mum exclaimed, including a lot of exclamation marks. Perhaps it would be sensible — prudent even — but for Journo Resources… it just wouldn’t feel right.

As adults, we get a lot of emails. Emails tell us how to spend our money, show us stories we might want to write, and let us know when we don’t get the job we want. If your inbox is anything like mine, it’s a burning hot bin fire. But, there’s one thing the fuel isn’t made of, it’s feedback and constructive criticism. Outside of the education system, when was the last time someone emailed to let you know what you’d done right, what you’d done wrong and how you could change it next time? Nowhere does this feel more acute than when applying for jobs or sending off freelance pitches.

I won’t lie — feedback for all absolutely isn’t feasible at any kind of scale and it makes even less business sense. But, I still think it’s an ethos that’s worth thinking about more. What are the small ways in our lives and our work where we can tell people that they’ve nailed it? Or, more importantly, how they could tweak things ever so slightly? How can we do it kindly, often, and with compassion? Perhaps it sounds twee, but I think we’d all be in a much better place if it happened more often.

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• SWNS is looking for a trainee or junior reporter to join their London team. You’ll be covering everything from court cases to online trends for a range of national publications and they offer a salary of £26–30,000pa.

• 🏡 Construction Wave has a vacancy for a reporter. You’ll be hunting down trends, events, and stories shaping the industry and it pays £20,000pa, with unlimited paid holiday. [URL?]

• There’s a trainee reporter role here with a mystery company in the technology space, focusing on market trends. It pays a pretty decent £25–28,000pa.

• If you’re looking for your first steps into TV, this one with ITV could be a go-er. They’re looking for new subtitlers to provide subtitles for their broadcast and streaming platforms. The role pays £22–25,000pa.

• TechRadar Gaming has an opening for a hardware writer, who will also appear on audio and video content. They say it’s a perfect entry-level role and it pays up to £27,000pa.

• Liberty, the human rights charity, is hiring a digital content assistant — you’ll need to scroll down on this page to find it. It pays £34,477pa. This role was spotted on the excellent MediaBeans.

• This is a website assistant gig with a not-for-profit business that has opted to remain a mystery. It pays up to £26,000pa and is a four-day week.

• 🕑 The Different Folk has an opening for a social media and marketing assistant to help get their artists’ work out into the world. It pays the London Living Wage.

• Carbon Brief needs a content executive to work on the day-to-day delivery and production of their online content. You’ll work on their social media, newsletters, and community engagement. It pays £28,000pa and we think it’s worth a shot.

• And, finally, this is a social media executive job at Outlook Publishing focused on regional business and travel content. It pays £20–25,000pa.

• 🚨 Today is the deadline for the Staff Writer and Social Media Editor job with Creative Lives in Progress. It’s a really nice role where you’ll be helping others up the ladder and it pays £25–27,000pa. (PS. We’ve finally commissioned someone to fix the bug of when jobs close so they don’t show as shut on the last day).

• TL;DR News is expanding its team of writers. You’ll pitch video ideas and write scripts for both their EU and global news channels, as well as present pieces to camera. It pays £35–45,000pa.

• The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is hiring two digital content producers to produce digital content across a range of channels and reach diverse new audiences. It pays £25,643.80–£29,465.80pa. What a specific salary range.

• 🚨 🏡 🕑 Round Our Way is a new organisation that wants to diversify the voices talking about climate change. They’re looking for a community manager to build relationships with impacted communities. It pays £35–45,000pa FTE.

• Insurance Insider has an advert up for a data journalist to work on data visualisations for them and their sister titles. It pays £28–35,000pa.

• Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of calling the Met Office for a story, my favourite thing is how they suddenly switch from normal chat to sounding like a television presenter when you ask about the weather. This is a really long-winded way of me telling you they’re looking for a press officer. It pays £32,100–34,925pa.

• Express Online is hiring for a royal lifestyle reporter — and we all know how much The Express loves stories about the royals. If that’s your jam, it pays £25–27,000pa.

• There’s just over a week left to apply to the PinkNews gigs. There’s an assistant editor role for entertainment and news and both of them pay £35–40,000pa.

• Drapers, the leading B2B fashion outlet, is looking for a news editor. They’re offering £35–40,000pa and as well as writing news yourself, you’ll also be setting strategy and forward-planning.

• TechRadar is hiring a social media manager to help sell its content in new and innovative ways. It pays up to £30,000pa.

• RA Magazine is the quarterly publication from the Royal Academy of Arts and sent to more than 80,000 people. They need a deputy editor to pick up a maternity contract and it pays £34,255pa.

• And, finally, Edinburgh International Festival is looking for a copywriter to help them celebrate new and exciting creative artists from across the globe. It pays £30–34,000pa.

• The Evening Standard is hiring again. This time they’re looking for a senior features social editor. This means you’ll be the person working on repackaging and selling their lifestyle and feature content on social. It pays £40–45,000pa.

• Carrot Pharma, a recruitment company, has an advert up for an associate editor/journalist to cover health tech. It seems quite a broad spectrum of content, with everything from website pieces to whitepapers. It pays up to £40,000pa.

• Drapers, the fashion magazine, is in need of a deputy editor for a maternity cover contract. You’ll manage the day-to-day running of the editorial team and it pays £38–45,000pa.

• Standard Life, which provides pensions and all sorts of other stuff, is hiring for an intermediary content writer. It sounds technical, but it’s basically writing topical articles for their newsletter, scripting videos, and writing social posts. It pays £50,000pa. You can be based in London or Edinburgh.

• They’re also looking for a content strategist — this is more about setting the plans for what kind of content they should be making for their users. This pays £60,000pa and, again, can be based in Edinburgh or London.

• The Guardian’s deputy opinion editor Barbara Speed, is always on the lookout for pitches for the Guardian Opinion series, 'why I quit' — it can be a physical thing, a behaviour, a place... but it must involve actually quitting!

• Sharan Dhaliwal wants to commission more stories from Queer people of colour. Send your opinion and first-person stories over to sharan.dhaliwal@metro.co.uk — but have a look at the type of stuff they’ve already published before you pitch.

• Paul Clements is the new Deputy Voices Editor at The Independent. If you’ve got a pitch, he has officially declared his DMs open.

• This one often pops up, but it’s a pretty straightforward gig if you can think of a journalism tool, app or resource the International Center for Journalists hasn’t yet covered. IJNet wants to hear your pitches on all things trends and innovation in the journalism industry.

• Catalog — a digital record shop and music community for artists to press and sell one-of-one digital records — is now seeking editorial pitches.

• The BBC is taking applications for its podcast producer pool, with a specific focus on those who are able to put together pilots. The pool isn’t a guarantee of work, but they’ll call you up if something comes up.

• 🚨Scalawag Magazine is looking for pitches for its Salt, Soil and Supper series, which has expanded beyond the newsletter to a section in the mag. Submissions close at the end of the week, though, so be quick.

• New Lines magazine, which tells untold stories about the Middle East and the wider world in unexpected ways, is seeking pitches on essays that explore an overlooked or misunderstood part of history.

• For the science writers out there, Gen-Z-led nonprofit The Xylom, wants to hear your pitches on all things science and how it affects and shapes communities. Personal essays, narrative features, and science analyses are all welcome.

• And more opportunities in the science space here — SciPod is looking for a freelance writer who can write about earth sciences, and one who can write about physical science, engineering and technology.

• Finally, Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums is in need of a communications freelancer. You’ll be editing up some of their videos and creating a package of Reels. There’s a budget of up to £5,000.

• Applications are now open for the John Schofield Trust’s Early Career Mentoring Scheme. It’s open to anyone over 18 who’s just starting out in print, digital, or broadcast and provides 12 months of 1-2-1 mentoring.

• An early reminder of the 12 Awards of Christmas from the Travel Connection Group. It’s open to all journalists and PRs in the travel sector until the end of the month. The twist is that you can only nominate other people.

• 🚨🎪 Final reminder for our next Journo Resources event! We’re looking at all things cover letters. We’ll explore how you can sell your skills quickly, tell an authentic story, and get to the next stage of the process.

• The British Journalism Awards are open for entries again and with more categories than you can shake a stick at. They’ll waive entry fees for women, disabled people, and people of colour who don’t have an employer willing to pay for their entry.

• The Megacities Short Docs competition is open again. They’re looking for four-minute documentaries about huge cities that inspire new projects with a positive environmental and social impact. There are various categories, each with a €1,000 prize fund.

• 🚨 Monday is the closing date for the 2024 Women in Film and Television Four Nations Mentoring Scheme. You need five years of experience and will benefit from 1-2-1 mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.

• Applications for the Arts Emergency mentoring scheme will open this month, so one to bookmark and forward to any 16–18-year-olds who want to pursue a career in journalism or the wider creative industries. If you’d like to give back, you can also sign up to become a mentor with them here.

• 🚨 Newmark J-School’s online programme for Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators closes this week. It’s a 100-day online curriculum to help you understand market needs, grow an audience, develop multiple revenue streams, and hone survival skills. There are several scholarships available.

• Bridging The Gap is a training programme to support documentary talent in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They’ll give up to six films a cash budget of £8,500, plus in-kind production and distribution support and mentoring.

• 🎪🆓 Creative Mentor Network is running a free workshop next Wednesday on how to take your first steps into freelancing. It’s a very practical session, looking at how to set yourself up, how to get paid, and all things tax.

• Finally, the Banjay Freelance Development Programme is a 12-month scheme for people who want to break through barriers in the TV industry. You’ll be mentored for six months as well as take part in a series of workshops.

Our new deputy editor hasn’t started yet, so I’ve really struggled to get pieces up these last few weeks. So, here are a few recommendations of stuff I’ve enjoyed reading this week instead. We’ll have new pieces up very, very soon:

• Ellen Scott, deputy digital editor at Stylist, has launched her own Substack about the world of work. This week’s piece is about how to leave work on time, and I read it like a deer in headlights as I stumbled on with a late-night work sesh.

• This week’s Talking Travel Writing newsletter is also a must-read. It includes a first-person piece from Lisa Goldapple about the struggles she’s faced asking to bring her carer with her to press trips she’s invited to.

• And, finally, I’ve been banging on about LinkedIn for a while now, it’s basically my Twitter replacement and I’m trying to post useful content every week. When my partner sent me this, I felt very vindicated.