Jobs and Opps at openDemocracy, talkSPORT, SHOW Media, the BBC and Many, Many More 🌵

Everything you need to have on your radar this week.

Today’s newsletter is coming to you from many places. It started at my desk, then the train carriage I’m taking to Central London, and then the back of the sessions at the Association of British Science Writers Conference. I’m really hoping my laptop doesn’t make it with me to the swimming pool as well, as that really would be a terrible experience for everyone involved.

I hadn’t planned for today to be so stressful. Perhaps naïvely, I’d assumed I’d both start and finish this newsletter yesterday. I’d then spend this morning taking care of anything urgent, before heading off to the conference. Naïve me also assumed I’d be able to get there early, relax, and take in a couple of sessions before my big, scary pitch later this afternoon. It didn’t pan out that way.

There’s something about working on a deadline that makes me feel on edge. It’s almost like I’m in a heightened state, a bit like a deer ready to dart off into the hills the moment any kind of threat appears. It’s happened a bit over the last few weeks. The awards entry thrown in 40 minutes before deadline. A piece which needed to be submitted by the end of the working week. It felt like newsroom flashbacks.

Before the pandemic hit, I spent a lot of time working newsroom shifts, often putting together six or more pieces a day. The entire day felt like a sprint, until I’d collapse at the finish line, exhausted. It was the pandemic that made me realise that I didn’t want to do it anymore. We’re all told as journalists that we “love the buzz”, but to me, the buzz didn’t feel buzzy. It felt endless and exhausting — and it didn’t feel like I was doing my best work. So, I stopped.

Maybe you enjoy the buzz. Maybe, like me, you don’t. But today got me thinking about all the things we just take as a given in journalism, like our working practices. And maybe there’s a world where it doesn’t have to be that way.

🚨 [EVENT] Managing Side Hustles Without Burning Out

This seems like an incredibly apt event for me this week — the wonderful Lateefah Jean-Baptiste is joining us to run a session on how to manage your side hustles (or just multiple projects in general) without burning out. We’ll talk about productivity, mental health, and how to make the various strands of your career link together.

• This is a really fun entry-level role at the BBC, working as the digital researcher for Tiny Happy People. It pays from £23,101pa and you’ll be helping to develop and produce their content.

• 🚨 🕑The team at gal-dem is still looking for a membership and comms assistant to help them relaunch their membership scheme. You’ll work across newsletters, community posts, and social and it pays £24,500–26,000pa.

• 🚨 Also closing tomorrow is the reporter role at The Big Issue. You’ll focus on environmental issues and be based in either Glasgow or London. Pays £25,000pa.

• This one says you need experience, but they also say an ability to learn is more important and that they want TikTok experience, so we say go for it. Schofield Publishing is paying £24–26,000pa for a social media specialist.

• 🚨 News UK has opened up a host of new apprenticeships, all paying £25,000pa. There’s a TV broadcast apprenticeship with TalkTV and a trainee broadcast assistant wth talkSport too.

• 🚨 They also have some roles with their influencer agency, The Fifth, too where you’ll get to work with top names in journalism. There’s an apprenticeship as a marketing assistant and focusing on talent relationships available.

• Law.com International has an opening for a reporter to work on a range of stories, features, and analysis, with a focus on off-diary scoops. It pays £22–32,000pa, so open to all levels of experience.

• Which? is looking for a researcher/writer to join their product testing team, which focues on consumer products. Pays £22–26,000pa.

• And, finally, don’t forget the reporter role at Alliance News, where you’ll be covering the economy. And, famously, everything is going just fine with the economy right now, so an exciting beat. Pays from £26,000pa.

• 🚨 🏡 A Friday deadline for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s job as an audience producer, to help engage people with their stories. Pays up to £30,000pa.

• SHOW Media focus on luxury products like watches, fashion, property, and travel. They are looking for a digital project manager to lead on all things online and social and it pays £36–39,000pa.

• The Health Service Journal aka The HSJ is looking for a journalist/correspondent to write exclusive news stories and develop a deep expertise. Pays in excess of £31,000pa.

• There are a couple of BBC jobs this week, all at Band C, which is a pay range of £25,670–50,313pa. They need a journalist producer in Leeds to work on creative ideas for radio, a journalist at BBC Wales Investigates to tackle challenging stories, and someone to join BBC Look North as a journalist.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the news reporter job at TTG Media, which focuses on the travel industry. It pays up to £28,000pa.

• 🚨 🕑 The end of the week is also the last chance for the digital marketing and PR coordinator at Untamed Borders. It pays up to £27,000pa and also includes a free holiday they pay for each year.

• 🏡 Saga Media is looking for a staff writer to focus on fitness, helping to build up their new website. It pays up to £30,000pa.

• 🚨 openDemocracy is looking for a news editor to lead their coverage and commission pieces. It pays £43–48,000pa.

• Premier is looking for a deputy head of news for maternity cover, which can be worked between home and the office. It’s paying £32–35,000pa.

• 🚨 Also the final call for the PinkNews content researcher role. They’re looking for someone to find the very best stories on the inernet and it pays up to £25,000pa.

• And, finally, the British Heart Foundation is looking for a health content creator to write and produce content that helps people feel informed and empowered about heart and circulatory conditions. Pays £27–30,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 Friday is the deadline to apply for the community journalist role with HI HUB. It’s a six-month gig initially, for one day a week and pays £22,000pa FTE.

• PCMag.com is looking for a freelance weekend news writer who can pick up on three to four stories a day each weekend. Open to UK writers and pays US$60–70 per piece.

• Don’t forget if you’ve got a story for Black Ballad, they’re always open for pitches. Go through the link on this tweet.

• The Skinny is open for pitches, especially for film writers. It pays up to £50 a piece, so best for those just starting out.

• Kiera Fields from Insider is looking for pitches around Halloween. They’re keen to hear from a range of case studies such as people who’ve worked at Disney, for celebs, or at famous restaurants. Rates start at £270.

• Grace DeGraaf, also from Insider is also looking for pitches. They’re looking for magazine-style analysis and explainers in the world of work, tech, economy, tech, and business. Pay starts at US$500.

• Metro.co.uk is looking for freelancers to join them for shifts on their SEO desk. Evie is also one of our readers and very lovely, so do drop them an email!

• British GQ has opened up pitches around Don’t Worry Darling, Blonde, and Andor. Pay starts at 30ppw.

• Leafie is looking for pitches related to cannabis and psychedelics and the surrounding culture. Send your ideas this way.

• And, finally, The Yale Review is looking for pitches on a wide range of topics and have a really great pitching guide. It pays US$500–1,500.

• The BBC’s Young Reporter Story Search is open again, looking for stories from people aged 11–18. Tell the young people you know to send an idea!

• 🚨🎪 This really is your last chance to grab tickets for our event tomorrow on managing multiple projects and avoiding burnout. See you there!

• 🎪 Also coming up soon from our events programme: how to break into travel journalism, how to pitch and write opinion pieces, covering stories about children who are very unwell, using Instagram for journalism, and how to sell your ideas to multiple different outlets.

• 🚨 The British Journalism Awards close this week. It’s free to enter the Marie Colvin Award and the Barbara Blake-Hannah Award and there’s also a diversity bursary for other categories if you don’t have the backing of an editor.

• The John Schofield Trust has extended the deadline for the mentoring scheme, given how bonkers it’s all been. Apply now if you’re over 18.

• 🚨 You have until the end of the month to apply for a £500 bursary from PostGrad.com to go towards a masters course.

• 🚨 Entries close on Friday for the United Nations Correspondant’s Association Awards, which reward the best coverage of the UN.

• The Allard Prize is open again to recognise the best photojournalism around the themes of corruption. Prizes of up to CAD$1,000.

• It’s My Shout and BBC Wales have opened up a scheme for anyone who thinks they have an idea for a short documentary series. No age limit.

• We’ve had a heads up that Women in Journalism’s Georgina Henry Award should reopen soon. It has a £4,000 cash fund for women who run, or want to run journalism projects which are digitally innovative.

• Apologies for no reading list this week! The conference has just ended and I really want to not take my laptop into the pool — next week, I promise! The good news, is we won £5,000 when pitching, watch this space for a new scince project coming your way!