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Last week, I was on holiday. I stayed in an Air BnB without WiFi, I swam in one of the best outdoor pools I’ve ever seen and I also learnt some wild facts about white tigers. Except I wasn’t quite on holiday. Regular readers will know that this newsletter still came out. I still ended up chairing an event for another client. I couldn’t quite tear myself away from the group Slack.
Holidays as both a journalist and an entrepreneur can be a tricky thing to pull off in practice. As a staffer, it can be difficult to switch off from the news and the feeling that you should still keep on top of your beat or be sending tips to the news desk. Especially at the moment, when the news is so present, it almost feels impossible to escape. As a freelancer, it’s a feeling that’s coupled with the worry of losing out on income and opportunities.
For me, the biggest struggle is switching off from my own projects. Journo Resources started off as my side hustle, my passion project that was done after hours. To a certain extent, it’s now my day job, but that just makes it even harder to put it down. It’s easy enough for me to close the lid on client work – that’s not the thing that gets me up in the morning. It’s harder when your job becomes more entwined with your idea of purpose.
I wish I could end this off with an answer, or a couple of tangible tricks that work for me, but the truth is that while I know holidays are vital and important, I haven’t quite worked it out myself yet. However, it is the top of priority list for 2021. I’d love to hear from you about how you manage it, or how you’ve managed to make things easier. Either way, I’ll let you know how I get on.
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An absolute bucket load of journalist apprenticeship jobs here from News UK this week. No, really. All of them pay £22,000pa, offer coaching and mentoring and they’ll also pay your NCTJ course fees. Gigs are available at:
The Camping and Caravanning Club are looking for an editorial assistant to help keep things running smoothly for their magazine. It pays £20-22,000pa and while it’s a bit admin-y, it looks like there’s quite a lot scope.
🚨 Last chance for this digital reporter job with SuffolkNews.co.uk. It’s also with my old boss from the place I started out! Pays £17-25,000pa. Closes tomorrow.
🏡 What looks like a good entry-level web content writer role here. It’s with a publisher of legal, management and finance magazines and pays £23,000pa.
🚨 This week is the deadline for the Google News Initiative Fellowship. There are thirty eight week placements up for grabs at organisations including gal-dem, The Guardian, Reach, and the FT. All pay at least the National Minimum Wage.
This one from Arts SU asks for one year experience, which means you could be able to swing it. It’s for a comms and marketing officer and pays £26,630pa.
CNN have opened up their journalism internship again and it pays London Living Wage. It doesn’t say how long the scheme is, but there are fifteen roles available.
🏡 Signature Gifts have a digital marketing internship open, which pays National Minimum Wage and lasts for seven months. They’re also pretty flexible on where you work, as long as you come in twice a month.
Finally, this one is a bit journalism adjacent, but crosses over on a lot of stuff and is for graduates. Glasgow City Council are looking to pay £23,788.07-27,936.03pa (yep, specific as) for a digital media officer.
🏡 🕑 Investigative Europe are looking for a news reporter to join their team, either as a staff role or freelance. They’re open to you doing anywhere between three and five days a week and as a guide it’s €4,000pm if full time.
Capital.com are looking for a data journalist to build up a data journalism team for their websites. It pays £35-45,000pa. They’re also looking for a digital content manager to run their audio and video content and it pays £50-60,000pa.
The Camping and Caravanning Club are on a hiring spree. They’re also looking for a managing editor to look after their monthly print magazine for members. It pays a pretty decent £40,000pa. No word on free caravan holidays though.
The Liberal Democrats are looking for a media officer to develop story pitches to the mainstream news organisations. Pays £30-33,000pa.
It doesn’t say who this one is for, but a journalist gig here for a financial services services business. It pays £32,000pa and you’ll be mainly focusing on digital stuff, looking at their website and social media.
🚨 Last chance for this digital engagement editor job at The Ferret to help add digital value to stories. The deadline is midday tomorrow and it pays £31,200pa.
🚨 It’s also the last orders for the grants fundraiser job at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It pays from £38,000pa and you’ll be helping to ensure they have enough cash to keep running and expanding.
This looks like a low-level second job one, as they need one year of experience. Arts SU are looking for a communications and marketing coordinator and you’ll look after everything from newsletters and social to audio content. Pays £26,630pa.
Via a recruiter so I’m not quite sure who this is with, but a senior content writer job here focusing on web and social media content. Pays £30-32,000pa.
🚨 Finally, a reminder that the digital reporter job at SuffolkNews.co.uk closes tomorrow. It’s a second job kind of vibe at the upper end, which is £25,000pa.
Two fun ones here from Brendan Miller. First off, he’s looking to hire an editor to help him edit his articles and scripts. Secondly, he’s looking for journalists interested in video, but with a background in print. You’ll be helping with scripting and research for his politics videos for the likes of the New York Times, the BBC and more and it pays £170 a day.
Adweek are looking for freelancers to help put together write-ups about creative businesses and campaigns. You just need to have some solid writing experience and marketing awareness.
Aluse Kalish is looking for pitches for Business Insider on inequity in education. Send your ideas and previous clips this way. Mostly US focused at the moment.
A freelance gig here around creating ‘how to guides’. More details here.
Want to write for Fortune? They’re looking for freelance writers and have also helpfully put together a pretty comprehensive guide of stories they liked from freelancers and what they want in a pitch.
🚨 Last chance to apply for the multimedia reporter freelance pool at Crown Media. You’ll be sent on a variety of assignments across the globe.
VICE UK are looking for stories about getting into and out of debt for their series ‘The Debt Collection’. Send your stories to Ryan Bassil.
Zagat are looking for stories, focused on restaurants and diners. It’s mainly US-based but they’re also looking for stories on London. They’re a pretty comprehensive pitching guide and they pay $500 a piece.
The HipHop Dance Almanac is looking for pitches. They’re looking for longform written pieces and deep dives on specific topics. Pays £150-350 per piece.
Sophia Waterfield is looking for your pitches for Paranting, a magazine for parents. Pays 25p a word.
Hattie Gladwell is commissioning for May for Inspire The Mind. She’s looking for essays and opinion pieces as well as reported pieces. Pays £85 a piece.
Insurgence Media are looking for freelance feature writers and journalists to work on data stories, with the idea of writing one piece a week. Pays £25-35ph.
The Scottish BAME Writers Network are looking for pitches from Black writers and writers of colour in Scotland. They’ll pay £175 for you to run a workshop or £135 for a blog post.
Finally, Into are looking for your pitches if you identify as LBGTQ+. They pay $100-250 per piece.
Substack Local is now live, and they’ve got $100,000 for people who are using their platform for local news. It’s super easy to apply and they’re paying cash advances of $100,000 to publishers to allow them to support themselves and become profitable. Closes on Thursday.
I’ve just signed up for this one with the Young Women’s Trust because it looks amazing. They offer six free coaching sessions to women aged 18-30 and can talk through everything from work to mental health.
🎪 Our very own Neve Gordon-Farleigh is running an event with Freelancing For Journalists about how to use TikTok as a journalist. Tickets are just £10 and there are also bursary tickets available.
🎪 We promise this is your last reminder! Get your tickets to our panel on Thursday (or a copy of the recording). It’s just £4 and we’ll be talking all things about how to plan your journey to editorship.
🚨 The deadline for the Shutterstock’s The Create Fund is in two days. They offer up to $5,000 for visual journalists, photographers and videographers to work on projects under the theme of ‘Through Her Eyes’.
The Stars4Media Programme has returned, and offerings coaching, support and up to €5,400 per participant. It’s been a bit of a Brexit casualty for us Brits, but if you are based in the EU, well worth applying.
The Canon Student Development Programme is now open for entries and looks like a good one for photojournalists. It’s a free four-day event with talks and a portfolio review. Apply with your work here.
Also back again is the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents. It’s open until June, so you have a bit of time and there’s a €7,000 prize in each category.
Getty have been pretty on it with grants over the past few years, and they’re back again with grants of up to $10,000 for women photographers to fund new or in-progress documentary projects.
Finally, the National Diversity Awards are now open, with a whole range of different categories from role model to business. It’s all about nominating other people, so why not give someone a boost, as it’s a super easy form.
The next piece from our Journo Resources’ fellows is here! Next up Kate Kūlniece looks at if the robots really are after our jobs – and why it’s the humans that are the ones messing things up.
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