Jobs and Opps at ITV, The Evening Standard, BBC iPlayer, Agency Hackers, and Many, Many More 🔌

Everything you should apply for this week.

I’m writing this newsletter to you from a train which doesn’t have plug sockets, a sentence I can only hope conveys my rising blood pressure as my journey goes on. Putting this newsletter together always feels like I’m on a deadline — but today Avanti West Coast have really ratcheted up the stakes. My battery was full when it started, but how long will it last? What if I fall down in the final moments of sub-editing? Why the fuck does a guaranteed plug socket cost £30 extra in 2023?!

The tenseness at the back of my brain and the slight twinge in my stomach remind me a lot of working breaking news shifts. With up to ten stories to write a day, every second of your shift counts. No sooner have you finished with a piece, you’re onto the next, instantly context-switching from gin made with food waste to the finer details of the Brexit fall-out. I’d always try my best to conduct at least one interview a day, but often it just felt exhausting. For some people, the pace of breaking news is exhilarating and exciting. For me, the hyperfocus would leave me like a zombie.

This newsletter isn’t really like that, but the situation I find myself in certainly reminds me of it. The newsletter is one of those jobs that expands to fill the time you have available. Were the hours in my day endless, and my electricity supply limitless, I could sit here until the early hours scouring for ever more obscure opportunities. Those are the ones I most like finding — it feels like you’ve managed to dig up some obscure treasure that’s long been forgotten. You polish it up and and send it out into the world, in the hope it might help someone. The more time I have, the better I feel the newsletters are for you.

In a way, it’s a little like journalism — the endless possibilities and the knowledge that you’ll get a better product if you give your reporters the space and resources to thrive. Of course, within the limits of some kind of deadline. In the wake of seemingly endless layoffs, it might feel naive to hold out hope for a more secure and satisfying industry for journalists. Maybe I am an optimist, but I do believe that good journalism will find a way through, especially if we all fight for it together. It’s what we’ll keep doing here at Journo Resources and I hope you’ll join us. I also hope you’ll find a treasure in this newsletter too, even if I am on a deadline.

🚨 [EVENT] Writing Reviews & Finding Homes For Them

Katie Goh’s reviews have been published far and wide, finding homes in the likes of The Quietus, The Skinny, and Little White Lies. In this new event, they’ll share their wisdom and run through how to write authentic and engaging reviews for a range of formats, as well as look at how to build relationships with PRs and commissioning editors to find the right home for your words.

• BBC iPlayer is hiring a journalism researcher to focus on news. You’ll be working on how to deliver the best and most innovative news experience to audiences. As a Band B role, it pays from £23,103pa.

• 🚨🏡 This week is the closing date for the weekend news fellow role with Insider. It’s a six-month contract from June to December and pays £24,000pa.

• 🚨 Also closing this week is the sports journalist role with Iliffe Media in West Suffolk and Cambridge, which is a rare opp to get your foot in the door with sport reporting. It pays £19,481–27,731pa.

• Also, a reminder that their multimedia journalist role is still open in Suffolk too. Again, it pays £19,481–27,731pa.

• The Evening Standard is looking for a shopping writer, and having had a read-through of the description, it could be attainable for a first job if you’ve got some decent student media experience. Pays £20–30,000pa.

• The Mirror is hiring two editorial assistants as part of a scheme to kickstart your career. It’s a six-month job where you’ll write stories for both print and online and it pays London Living Wage.

• 🕑 Jackson’s Art Supplies is looking for a video editor to create short-form content for TikTok and Instagram. It’s two days a week currently and pays £13.50ph.

• Intermission Film has a vacancy for a runner, the most entry-level role in the film and TV industry. It pays £20–25,000pa.

• This is an editorial assistant role working for 4x4 Magazine and Custom Car. You’ll write news and features, upload events, and oversee magazine production.

• 🕑 And, finally, Chelmsford Theatre is looking for a marketing assistant to join their team. It pays £20–25,000pa FTE and looks like it could slot in well with freelancing.

• 🚨 Final chance to apply to the news reporter role with Agency Hackers. You’ll be covering the marketing agency community and it looks like a great role to get stuck into a beat. It pays £26,000pa.

• 🕑 There’s a part-time role here as the assistant digital editor at The Architects’ Journal, where you’ll be looking after their newsletters and optimising the stories on their website for SEO and social. It pays £18,000pa for three days a week.

• The Waltham Forest Echo are part of the lovely team at Social Spider CIC, who I personally think are doing some of the best community news out there. It’s independent and really cares. They’re in need of an editor and are paying £26,500pa.

• Food Matters Live, made by the Association for Nutrition, is looking for a news and features journalist with about three years of experience. You’ll be digging into all things regarding the future of food and pay starts from £30,000pa DOE.

• Private Markets covers investment management and has two roles open for journalists who want to focus on exclusive news. It pays £27–37,000pa.

• The BBC’s Assistant Producer Accelerator Programme offers experienced researchers the chance to step up into a producer role, with a 12-month contract and additional training. It pays £32,000pa plus London Weighting.

• The Independent needs both a sub-editor and a deputy chief sub-editor to check copy and stories on their website and daily online edition. Both are in the same pay bracket of £31–40,000pa, but presumably at different ends.

• Trading Risk needs a senior reporter to cover the global financial market. Pays £35–40,000pa.

• Today Digital has an opening for a senior content writer to work on commercial content for a number of their publications. It pays £35–45,000pa.

• Two fun BBC roles at Band C this week — this means they pay £25,670pa and up. Firstly Blue Peter is looking for a content producer to work on online content and World Online is also hiring a journalist to cover Africa.

• A few final senior journalist roles at the BBC. There’s a senior journalist with the Today Programme who can think creatively and come up with original ideas. There’s also a senior sub-editor in Nottingham, who will commission, check, and sub-edit stories for BBC East Midlands. It pays £36,195–64,688pa.

• 🚨 Last call for the Global Witness job as a senior investigator in their forests newsroom, which focuses on climate-critical forests. It pays £52,494pa.

• ITV is looking for a content editor based on the beautiful island of Jersey. You’ll be paid £41,800–49,300pa and will look after producing, news editing, and planning their news programme.

• The Royal College of Nursing is hiring a learning content editor for its digital platform RCNi. You’ll be paid £39,873pa and will be writing and updating content.

• The Independent is hiring an audience editor to grow its global reach across various platforms. They’re paying £41–50,000pa.

• Endpoints News has an ad out for a biopharma breaking news reporter, which will net you £45–55,000pa.

• Times Radio is looking for freelance producers for the Ayesha Hazarika show. You’ll help plan and shape the schedule and output the live show at weekends.

• 🏡 AIM Group is hiring freelancers to cover the Austria, Germany, and Switzerland regions. Pays £40ph to work on short news pieces.

• 🏡 A similar one here — VitalBriefing, which covers business news, is looking for freelancers as well. Again, it’s fully remote.

• The Rebis, which celebrates the connection between tarot and creativity, is open for pitches themed around the chariot. Pays US$200 per piece.

• This is a content producer role for a government client, making original editorial content which will be distributed to all prisons. It pays up to £300 a day.

• 🚨 You have until the end of the week to send your pitches to Anthropology News. They’re looking for submissions on the theme of silence this time.

• Mid Wales Opera is looking for a marketing freelancer to work on digital, print, and press marketing work.

• Breakthrough Media is looking for freelance researchers for a radio project to broadcast to Muslim communities next Ramadan.

• 🚨 Today is the last day to send ideas to Kernel Magazine, which explores technology’s role in our collective future. Pays up to US$350 depending on the type of piece. There are plenty of details in the guide.

• Do you have a story about technology in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or beyond? Vicki Turk from Rest of World would love to hear them.

• Farrah Colette has written a very helpful thread here on how to pitch to Narratively. Use it to inspire pitches!

• Feeld, the dating app, is looking for more freelancers to write content for the site. They have some expansive guidelines too.

• Tiffany Kelly is open to pitches and looking for new regular freelancers at The Daily Dot. Pieces are paid at US$300–400.

• Reasons To Be Cheerful is open to your pitches on rigorous solutions journalism reporting. Full details over this way.

• Mared Parry is looking to build a roster of social content creators, especially on TikTok, for Mail Metro Media. Make sure to send examples and clips.

• Finally, Metro.co.uk want to add more freelance social video producers to their roster for in-office shits.

• 🚨🎪 Don’t miss out on next week’s event looking at all things arts and culture reviews with Katie Goh, formerly the first-person editor at gal-dem. We’ll talk about everything from finding shows to writings reviews and getting them placed.

• 🎪 Also coming up on our events calendar, Kemi Alemoru — who’s interviewed the likes of Naomi Campbell, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Alicia Keys — will be giving a masterclass in getting the best out of interviewees and telling their stories.

• 🎪 And finally, Elise Downing will be talking about how to get into adventure writing, from finding an adventure worth writing about, to crafting a compelling narrative that will get published.

• The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) is offering a diversity scholarship for people to attend their Science & Technology Journalism Summer School. It’s a pretty easy application form so worth a punt!

• ABSW is also currently running its National Young Science Writer competition, open to young people at non-selective state-funded schools or disabled pupils who are unable to attend school in person. The first prize is £1,000, ABSW membership, and a year’s worth of mentoring.

• The Pact Indie Scheme in London is now open for 2023. It’s for people who want to work in TV and is a six-month, entry-level scheme, where you’ll be paid the London Living Wage and placed at a production company of your choice.

• The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship is also now open for applications. It’s for early-career journalists who want to spend nine months working on an investigation, which will be published by a newsroom in London, New York, or Toronto. It pays £4,444pm and you’ll get a £1,250pm living stipend.

• Global Girl Media UK has opened applications for their summer academy. It’s a three-week programme for women aged 16–22 and covers digital and broadcast skills, including documentary making, and offers mentoring afterwards.

• 🚨The deadline is approaching for the next round of free training on LinkedIn for Journalists, from the social network themselves. If you take part, you also get a free year of LinkedIn gold.

• This is a fun one — Headliners of Summer is a virtual newsroom where student journalists from across the globe can come together over the holidays to work on journalistic projects collaboratively while universities are shut. More info here.

• 🚨 The Raconteur New Voices Programme closes for entries next Monday, so get your entry in quickly. It’s a 10-week programme to give you the skills you need to tell business stories, with the chance to publish a paid piece in their magazine.

• 🚨 Applications to The Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage Award close on Friday, recognising women who document social, environmental, cultural, or economic issues. The first prize is £2,000 to develop an ongoing project.

• 🚨 Under 18s you know also have until the end of the week to apply for the Young Audio Awards, with tonnes of categories from podcasting to rising star.

• The second edition of the Piazza Grande Religion Journalism Award is now open, with prizes of up to €2,000 for journalists who cover religion and spirituality.

• 🚨 The Next Gen Fund also closes for its next round this week. It offers up to £2,500 to help make projects around music happen for 18-25-year-olds or those aged up to 30 who are d/Deaf or disabled.

• We’re going contentious this week — should you ever pitch the same idea to multiple editors at the same time? Lizzie Tribone explores the for and against.

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