Jobs and Opps at ITV, The Guardian, BBC Asian Network, Global Witness, and Many, Many More ☀️

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

For someone who really hates inbox clutter, I really love newsletters. I’m not talking about the auto-generated link round-ups that some news outlets still fling out like it’s 2010. Nor am I interested in brands who just want to flog me something, anything. The good newsletters, to me, are the ones that feel like a letter from a friend. They show up in your inbox, right on schedule, with a promise of quiet time and comfort.

I think of them in a similar way to how people talk about radio — sure, they might be going out to thousands of readers, but it feels like they’re written just for me. I save them in my inbox for when I just need a moment, a pause in a relentless work day. I read them on the tube on the way to the pool. I scroll through them in bed on lazy mornings. I love them precisely because they’re nothing like the clutter or distraction of social media.

So, when Substack announced notes last week — which many have very reasonably compared to the Twitter timeline — I just wilted a little inside. I’ve always tried hard to push myself to be open to new ideas and innovation, especially in the social media space. So, I’ve paused a lot before writing this newsletter opener. Am I just being grumpy and resistant to change? Should I just give it a go? Does it even actually matter? As Anna Codrea-Rado wrote earlier this week, it “feels like when your chill neighbourhood spot suddenly blows up and everyone descends on it”. In my case, I was having a nice quiet coffee and now my phone is blowing up with notifications.

So, for now at least, you won’t be seeing any notes from us here at JR. Fundamentally, I don’t think that’s what people subscribe to our newsletter for. We exist to give you jobs, not clutter. And, the more I’ve thought about it this week, I come back to the idea of keeping things simple. To me, newsletters are fundamentally about one person writing to another. We don’t always need to chuck on additional bells and whistles when something is going well. Sometimes, it’s alright just to focus on what you’re good at. Sometimes, a newsletter is just a newsletter.

PS. If you’re in need of some new newsletter recommendations, I currently love The Single Supplement by Nicola Slawson, Lucy Webster’s The View From Down Here, and Talking Travel Writing by Lottie Gross and Steph Dyson.

PPS. Apologies for any typos or errors today, I’m working on my own!

[EVENT] Launching and Growing Your Own Newsletter

Thematically, given the opening I’ve written, this is hilarious timing. Come and join me in a few weeks’ time to talk about how to launch your own newsletter — we’ll talk about honing your ideas, best practices and why they work, and reaching the right communities. Oh yeah, and we’ll also talk about how to make dollar from it too.

• 🚨 Just a week to go to apply for the video production internship with Insider. You’ll be working on one of their flagship shows, True Cost, and it pays £24,000pa.

• Law Business Research has an opening for a trainee reporter to cover the global legal industry and write agenda-leading content. Pays £25,000pa.

• Some content assistant roles at the BBC this week — they’re Band B which pays from £23,103pa so are well worth throwing your hat in for. This role works across BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, while this one is with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. They’re more on the production side.

• 🚨 Applications are closing soon for the Google News Initiative Student Fellowship, which is run by the European Journalism Centre. You’ll get a minimum of €2,500 for eight weeks of work and participating newsrooms include The Guardian, The Financial Times, Euronews, and Reach.

• Gatsby is offering a six-month communications internship, paying London Living Wage. You’ll be researching, writing articles, and compiling various data bits.

• Synergy is exactly the kind of name you’d expect a car leasing broker to be called, am I right? Either way, they’re hiring a junior content writer to pen words on all things cars for their website. Pays £20–25,000pa.

• ITV has a trainee journalist role in Cardiff open for their Welsh Language Programmes. It pays £21,324—26,329pa.

• This role as a multimedia journalist is with a B2B publisher in Manchester that focuses on the UK infrastructure sector. It pays up to £25,000pa.

• Cambridge University Press has an eight-week internship focused on marketing and events and it looks pretty fun. It pays the Real Living Wage.

• LondonWorld is looking for a journalist to focus on video, pitching ideas for stories on a daily basis. They’re paying £26,000pa.

• 🏡 Last but not least, the Royal Society of Chemistry returns again with its science writer internship, working on Chemistry World. It pays the Real Living Wage and can be done remotely.

• Global Witness is in need of a multimedia content coordinator to work on the delivery of their video strategy, telling stories of those most impacted by the climate crisis. It pays £35,557pa.

• Wilmington Plc is looking for a healthcare reporter to cover the pharmaceutical industry for their publications. It pays a pretty decent £35–40,000pa.

• The Morning Star is £25,546.26to focus on news, features, and statistical content. It pays a very precise £25,046.26pa, which rises to £25,546.26pa after a six-month probation period.

• Three roles here with BBC Sport — they need assistant producers to work on short-form videos. You’ll be focused on social media and the BBC Sport app. It’s a Band C role, which means it pays £25,670–50,313pa.

• BBC Asian Network is in need of a senior journalist to cover the lives and concerns of young British Asians, both on air and through their digital platforms. It’s a Band D role, paying £36,195–64,688pa.

• emap is looking for an assistant editor for two of their B2B magazines, Heating & Ventilating and Refrigeration & Air Conditioning. Pays £28–30,000pa.

• One last BBC one to end on — BBC Radio is looking for a social media exec to work across all of their stations with a focus on making content about pop music. It’s also a Band C role, so it pays £25,670–50,313pa.

• I promise this is the last BBC job this week. BBC Scotland is looking for an assistant news editor to sit within the news content team. You’ll be leading their coverage and assigning stories. It’s Band E, which pays £48,516–82,144pa.

• Global Witness has an advert up for a senior investigator, to lead on investigations around forests and tropical forest destruction. It pays £52,494pa.

• One here from a recruiter — they’re hiring a reporter to cover capital markets and are paying £40–45,000pa.

• 🕑 Amnesty International is looking for an editor to work on commissioning, editing, and writing content. It’s a job share for three days a week and pays £44,682pa FTE.

• 🏡 Bellingcat is hiring an editor, ideally someone with at least five years’ experience, to work on high-profile investigations. You can be based anywhere and they’re paying €47,000–49,500pa.

• 🏡 And, finally, climateXchange is in need of an editor to work across the breadth of the project. They’re paying £60.275pa.

• Food and Wine is looking for freelance pitches and has a pretty comprehensive guide of what it is and isn’t looking for.

• Openly, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s LGBTQ+ news vertical, want your pitches for their TikTok channel.

• Nintendo Life is looking to expand its freelance talent pool and wants to hear your pitches. They also say nothing is too niche. Pays between £100–£250.

• This is a copywriter gig where you’d be writing website content for a financial services firm. It pays up to £350 a day and could be up to two years of work.

• Narratively has a call out for stories about Latin American people who are doing things their own way. Pays US$1,000 per story.

• 🕑 🏡 Popping this one here as it’s remote and part-time, so would fit well into a freelance schedule. It’s an ad for a copy editor for a publication, working on their digest and is paying £15.77 an hour.

• Your semi-regular reminder that the folks at IJNet are always accepting pitches on tips and tricks that can help journalists globally. Pays US$200 per piece.

• APL Media want your pitches for upcoming supplements in national newspapers covering all things health, fitness, beauty, food and drink. Full details in the thread.

• Religion Media Centre has a call out for freelance journalists to work with their team. You’ll be interviewing guests, writing articles, and explainers.

• Found via the lovely people at MediaBeans, Lime Pictures is looking for freelance digital producers to focus on social media video bits.

• The Local — side note, I love this site — is looking for freelancers in Austria to help boost their coverage of the country.

• And, finally, Radio Times want someone to write about Demon Slayer.

• 🎪 Coming up soon, I’ll be running a workshop on how to start your own newsletter. We’ll look at everything from coming up with the concept to how to monetise to make it a feasible project.

• 🚨 This one is only for you if you have fifteen years’ of experience in the film, TV, or screen industries, but if that’s you it looks great! The WFTV Fearless Leadership Programme aims to empower women to thrive in senior leadership positions. It closes next Tuesday.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the Breakthrough x Black Ballad mentoring programme for Black women writers, offering guidance from published authors.

• A couple more courses have now been added to the Write to Work programme, which is a free six-week course for unemployed residents in the Liverpool City region. Take a look if your area is included here.

• Bellingcat is hosting a global Hackathon this weekend and it looks like a great way to help improve digital investigative journalism tools. It also just sounds fun too.

• The Times’ Richard Beeston Bursary is back open for 2023, giving £6,000 to a British or UK-based foreign correspondent. You’ll spend six weeks abroad researching and reporting on a foreign news story.

• 🚨 The next deadline for the European Cross-Border Grants is approaching! It’s continental Europe, not EU member states, and they have €50,000 to give away in this next round.

• 🚨 Two days left to apply for the Ability Today NCTJ programme, which is offering the chance to get the certificate in foundation journalism for just £199, instead of the true cost of £2,000.

• 🚨 Applications also close this week for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is for women and non-binary journalists with at least three years’ of experience. You’ll complete research at MIT and undertake placements at The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

• 🚨 Is anyone going to be left open by next week? Who knows. The deadline for the Bloomberg UK Journalism Diversity Programme is this week — it’s a week of structured learning for current students.

• The Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication recognises any aspect of environmental communication, including journalism. There’s a prize of €100,000.

• The Extra Nice Fund, run by jobs board It’s Nice That, is looking to give away £2,500 to a creative project that tackles the lack of diversity in the creative industries. Everything from magazines to podcasts is encouraged!

• And, finally, this is a cool opportunity to pay what you can towards a professional headshot, and we’re also told there’s music, food, and crafting!

• We’ve just started writing up our science fellowship sessions so everyone can benefit from them — first up, we look at how to interview scientists and researchers for your pieces and get the best out of them.

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