Jobs and Opps at Insider, Sifted.eu, Iliffe Media, Netmums, and Many, Many More 🚲

Everything you should have on your list to apply for this week.

As Cat mentioned in last week’s newsletter, I spent the last week on holiday. It wasn’t exactly a relaxing holiday — for some reason, I decided it would be fun to try and cycle from my home in East Ham, London, back to the house I grew up in, in Fremington, North Devon. All in all, the journey across England’s backroads adds up to some 260 miles and took five days. I cycled across Kensington, where the council clearly hates cyclists, past endless green fields and hedgerows, and across the incredibly damp moors of Exmoor. They were so damp my shoes filled up like a bucket.

Some of the sights from my journey.

The five days I spent cycling were so different to the world I normally live in. When there are sixty miles to cover in a day, you don’t have time to keep on top of the news or check socials. There’s absolutely no chance of attending to your overflowing inbox. My partner calls it ‘the simple life’. You wake up, you eat, you cycle, and you sleep. And then, you repeat for days on end. There’s a comforting rhythm to it and a real sense of achievement when you finally stop pedalling each evening.

However, much like everything else, the beautiful landscapes I posted to my Instagram stories don’t quite tell the whole story. They don’t show you the panic attack in the middle of yet another fucking hill — which was, of course, the moment BeReal decided to pop up on my watch. They don’t show you a fog so thick I couldn’t see a few metres in front on me, as the milage on my cycle computer refused to tick down. They didn’t show you the endless search for a cycle shop after a broken spoke.

Did I have a good time? Yes, I think so. I was so proud of my achievement I even bought a Devon flag to celebrate getting to the other end. Did social media tell the whole story? As ever, absolutely not. It’s been a few days now since I finished, my legs no longer ache and my palms have stopped burning, but it feels way too soon for me to actually process what I’ve learnt, if anything. It’s a weird feeling for someone who pours their heart out in this newsletter every week. I’m not sure if we have to learn something from everything we do, but it does feel like a reminder that sometimes the simple life can be just that. It’s just a thing you did that one time.

PS. If you haven’t had enough of me today, I’m running our newsletter workshop again this evening! Come and join us to hear about how to set up your own newsletter, grow your audience, and make it work for you financially.

🚨[EVENT] Using Social Media To Find Stories And Promote Your Work In A Changing Online Landscape

You don’t need us to tell you the social media landscape is shifting day by day. This time last year it might have felt quite easy to decide where to focus your efforts — less so in May 2023. Join us next Monday, where Carla Jenkins will be talking us through which platforms are worth your time and how you can leverage them to help find stories, interviewees, and build a following for your week.

• 🚨 Last call for the editorial intern at Sifted.eu, where you’ll report on start-ups and tech for three months. You’ll be paid £2,000pm and it genuinely seems like a really great chance to work for a really exciting company and do original work.

• Once again, SWNS is hiring for a feature writer. You’ll be working in their magazine department, on stories that get published in national and international outlets. It pays up to £23,000pa.

• 🏡 There’s a new fellowship open this week at Insider. As a weekend news fellow you’ll work on news stories, with a focus on US and international stories. It pays £24,000pa.

• It doesn’t say what company this is for, but there’s an editorial assistant role here for someone looking to start a career in publishing. It pays up to £11.54ph and you’ll be supporting editors in tracking manuscripts from submission.

• This is an editorial assistant gig in audio with Penguin Random House — again, it’s quite admin-heavy, but could be a great first job. Pays £26,500pa.

• ITV has an apprenticeship open for a social media content creator to help them promote popular shows. It lasts 18-months and pays £23,379pa.

• The Record Label, a recording and media production studio in East London, is looking for a content creator to work across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It’s very much entry-level, paying £10.42ph.

• A reminder to apply for two great gigs with Iliffe Media, working across Suffolk News, Cambridge Independent, The Bury Free Press, and The Newmarket Journal. They have a sports journalist role, covering a range of sports, and a multimedia journalist gig. Both pay £19,600–26,000pa.

• Tindle Newspapers has a role for a multimedia journalist in Kingsbridge and it pays from £20,000pa.

• 🏡 🕑 Alliance Magazine is looking for a part-time news editor to work two days a week covering social investment and philanthropy. It pays £36,300pa FTE. There’s also a vacancy for a maternity cover digital editor, which pays £38,520pa.

• 🏡 Your regular BBC jobs section begins here! All of these ones are Band C, which pays £25,670–50,313pa. There’s a journalist role working on the BBC.com homepage, which is the site international users see — and it can be a remote role for the right person.

• There’s also a radio newsroom role, where you’ll be writing news summaries, voicing packages, and sourcing stories. Finally, there are two assistant producer roles, one with the natural history unit and another with audio drama in Wales.

• There’s also a decent haul of senior journalism jobs at the BBC this week. They’ve got openings for a senior social media journalist with the World Service and a senior reporter in Guernsey. Both are Band D, which pays £36,195–64,688pa.

• China Dialogue is hiring an assistant editor to join their London office, supporting their journalists and freelance contributors. It pays a very specific £32,250.94pa.

• Netmums is looking for a content writer / producer to work on engaging daily stories, newsletters, and looking at the data behind what performs well. It pays £25–30,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 Last chance to apply to the community and social media manager role at Crypto Gambling News — they’re open to both full- and part-time applications and are paying £30,000pa FTE.

• 🏡 Saga, off of both cruises and content, are looking for two new channel editors. We know JR readers have had success here before, so do apply! They’re looking for one person to head up all their content on sleep (you’ll even be managing a sleep writer, which is v cool) and someone to lead their nutrition content. Both pay up to £45,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 This role with Pulse closes today — it’s not too late to get your application in for what looks like a great role! As their investigations and analysis editor you’ll be leading successful investigations and deciding how they’re presented online and on social media. It pays £37–40,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 The Bellingcat gig as a tech community facilitator closes this week. They’re in need of someone who can build the bridge between the open-source research and software communities and are paying €52–55,000pa.

• Little White Lies is open for commissions and has revamped their process. Send your ideas to Hannah Strong over this way. It’s 15–20ppw.

• Pitches for the next season of Vittles are now open, themed around food and policy, looking at how policy affects how we all eat. They pay £800 a word, or 40p a word for smaller pieces.

• 🚨 Closing in one day is this copywriter role for a financial services organisation in Yorkshire, with a customer-focused voice. It pays up to £250 a day and is a six-month contract.

• Worth The Flight is a new newsletter launch from Going, which is looking at amazing experiences across the world. Send your pitches to Katie Hammel.

• MailOnline is looking for freelance travel journalists to work in-office shifts writing up the latest stories, as well as freelancing boxing and fight sports journalists.

• The One Show has opened up its talent pool, with a focus on assistant producers, who come up with content ideas and work on guests and interviewees. Basically, this means you’ll be in line for short-term contracts when they come up.

• Angela Chen is working on two new series for WIRED Ideas. One is on software criticism and the other is one the future of morality. Rates start at US$500.

• There’s also a freelance copywriter gig here, for a utility company in the Midlands. It pays £150 a day and it looks like they have multiple roles.

• Liverpool Confidential is looking for pitches from freelance writers based in Liverpool. There’s tonnes more details in their pitch guide.

• And, finally, News UK is looking for freelancers (aka casuals) to work as production coordinators on Talk TV on some of their new programmes.

• 🚨🎪 This evening I’m running a workshop on how to start and build your own newsletter. Join us to talk about coming up with ideas, making them work financially, and growing your audience.

• 🚨🎪 It’s also your last chance to grab tickets for next week’s social media event with Carla Jenkins. In a world where social media seems to be shifting every day, we’ll look at where to spend your time to find stories and build an audience.

• One final event coming up from us at the moment — adventure journalism. The wonderful Elise Downing will be talking about how to find adventures that work as stories, write them in an engaging way, and place them at publications.

• The Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers Programme is back open again and they include journalism within the programme strands. You’ll get bursaries of up to £1,500, training seminars, and ten months of 1-2-1 mentoring.

• 🚨 There are just a few days left to apply for the Edinburgh International Film Festival Curate-It Fellowships, which are for people who want to learn how to curate films. For 13 weeks you’ll get part-time professional mentoring, work through a digital course, and curate your own event. It also pays £2,270.

• 🚨 This week is also your last chance to nominate yourself (or someone else) for the National Diversity Awards. There are a huge range of categories for positive role models, community organisations, and entrepreneurs of excellence.

• 🚨 Are you a freelancer? Do you think you could be a top tier freelancer? I don't care if your inner critic says no, I think you are. You have until the end of the week to apply for the IPSE Freelancer Awards 2023, with various categories.

• 🚨 Applications to the Scott Trust Bursary close this week as well. I’m sorry, this is a whole section full of klaxons. You’ll get your tuition fees paid for an MA in journalism, living experiences, six weeks of work experience at The Guardian, a mentor, and a potential nine month contract at the paper afterwards. You can see our guide to applications here.

• 🚨 The Extra Nice Fund, from the lovely people at It’s Nice That, also closes this week. Get your application in to receive a grant of £2,500 for a creative project that positively impacts underrepresented or marginalised communities.

• The deadline is coming up for The Stationer’s Company Postgraduate Bursary Scheme, which provides financial support and mentoring for a range of courses including journalism.

• BAFTA’s UK Scholarship programme is back — they offer up to £12,000 towards course fees for either a BA or MA, as well as living expenses. There are some journalism courses on the eligible courses list.

• Entries are now open for the 2023 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism. There are three categories for freelancers, local reporters, and fixers, each with a prize of up to US$5,000.

• And, finally, the next ADcademy Live Programme from Brixton Finishing School is open for applications. It’s a free, week-long bootcamp that takes place online and is for people aged 18-30 who want to work in the advertising industry.

• The latest in our ‘Day in the Life’ series, Jess Glass talks through their role as a law reporter at PA Media. Yes, they covered the Wagatha Christie one.

• Karen Edwards also takes a look at how to break into the broadsheets, with tonnes of advice from journalists who’ve been there and done it.

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