Jobs and Opps at Positive News, Riverford, Great British Chefs, Campaign, and Many More 👩🏽💻
Everything to add to your 'to-do' list this week.
This week we’ve included a very special opportunity in the newsletter. It’s just below the cascade of ‘closing klaxons’ in the awards sections. I wanted to make it stand out, so I’ve put it in bold, but it doesn’t really feel like enough given its importance to me. So, I’m going to talk about it up here as well The award in question is the Georgina Henry Award for Digital Innovation, run by Women in Journalism and presented at the British Journalism Awards in December.
I won the award for Journo Resources back in 2018. It was the second time I’d applied, but I wasn’t much more organised. I remember skiving off my day job to try and put together some kind of costs table on the day of the deadline, before hurridly chucking it into a group chat for feedback. Thankfully, I don’t think my boss was in that day. She was in the day after I’d won though, when I still felt like the whole thing was a hazy dream. I do remember she bought a fantastically large slice of cake to celebrate.
I’ve probably told too many of you this story before, but winning the Georgina Henry Award really made things happen for me. It was the first time someone from the industry gave us a thumbs up — and, of course, a wad of cash, which was baffling handed to me as a handwritten cheque. I was terrified I’d lose it on the way home. Even just sitting at the awards ceremony, felt like a key to another world. When I won, someone from BuzzFeed came over and said hi. But, most of all, it made me believe this funny little newsletter and website might be a thing that could work out.
So, why am I telling you this? Mainly because I want you to apply for it too. To many of us talk ourselves out of putting ourselves forward because we’re not ready, we don’t know anyone, or countless other reasons. This is your notice to push through and do it. The award is currently open for entries until October 15 and any women journalist working in the UK can enter. There’s no fee at any point. The guidelines are broad — your project can be anything that relates to journalism and it can also be at any stage, as long as you can show some work you’ve previously done in the area. We’ve also put together a guide that outlines how to give yourself the best chance. If you apply for just one thing this week, I’d really, really love it to be this one.
This is a really fascinating one — Great British Chefs need a junior recipe developer. You’ll be coming up with recipes that fit their house style and are in line with current trends, then writing them up for their website and Instagram. It seems like such a fascinating mix and pays £26–28,000pa.
The Morning Star is hiring a web assistant to make sure online pieces are fully optimised, go up at the right times, and are promoted on social media. It pays £25,046.26pa, rising to £25,545.26pa after six months.
There are a couple of Local Democracy Reporter roles open at Reach at the moment, where you’ll get to cover the stories that matter about local authorities. There’s a role at BirminghamLive and another at MyLondon. Pay ranges from £22,880–31,200pa depending on experience and where you’re based.
More jobs than you can shake a stick at from News UK this week. They have apprenticeship roles at TalkTV in the TV studio and gallery and across social and digital, Times Radio has roles in video and social and broadcast, and talkSPORT has a role for a trainee sports writer and The Sun is offering a role in audience engagement. They all pay £25,000pa.
The Sun has also opened up the Vicki Orvice Scholarship for a trainee sports writer. Once again it pays £25,000pa and your NCTJ will be included.
SWNS is once again looking for a trainee reporter, this time, based in London. You’ll be finding, researching, and writing stories for national publications and will be paid £26–30,000pa.
Ad Warrior is hiring a graduate video editor. It’s exactly what it says on the tin really, but might be a good first step into broadcast or video. It pays £23,000pa.
Outlook Publishing in Norwich has an advert up for a B2B writer/editor who will work on company profiles, features, and interviews. Pay starts at £22,000pa. They are also hiring someone to work in social too, which pays £20–25,000pa.
Ten2Two is hiring a marketing assistant and says it’s perfect for someone who’s just starting out. It’s based in Hove and pays up to £23,000pa.
And, finally, Tindle Newspapers has a role live for a multimedia reporter at The Tavistock Times, based in Devon. You’ll work on original news and features and will be paid from £19,656pa.
Times Higher Education has a role listed for a reporter, which only needs two years of experience. You’ll work to find and break news original stories and will be paid £31–36,000pa.
🚨 Last call to apply for the writer job at TLDR News. You’ll be working on scripts and videos for their EU and global news channels and it pays £35–45,000pa.
🏡 🕑 [AD] The lovely team at Positive News are looking for a partnerships editor to work on branded content for their magazine and website. You’ll work closely with freelancers and clients and it pays £33–36,000pa FTE.
Social Streets, the publisher of several indy news outlets in Tower Hamlets, is in need of a media subscriptions and partnerships manager. You’ll work on partnerships, as well as grow and manage their subscribers. It pays £26,000pa.
Campaign covers the marketing and PR industry. It might sound a little meta, but it really is a fascinating read. They’re looking for a deputy news editor and it pays £30–35,000pa.
🕑 The Stained Glass Museum is mainly being included in this list because it sounds incredibly cool. They’re currently looking for a digital producer to put together engaging digital content. It pays £26,200pa FTE.
Newsquest, which runs an absolute bucket load of local papers across the country, needs an audience data analyst. You’ll live in programs like Google Analytics to work out who their audience is and how they can grow it. Pays £35–40,000pa.
Decanter, which (as you might have guessed) covers the wine industry, is hiring for a senior sub-editor. It pays up to £34,000pa and we assume there might occasionally be some free wine thrown in?
Stonebow Media, the publisher of The Lincolnite, is hiring an associate editor to help grow their audience and turn them into members. It pays £27,500–36,500pa.
World Animal Protection is hiring a UK communications officer to support their campaigns, fundraising, and brand awareness. It pays £33,425pa.
Riverford Organic Farmers (off of those cool organic food boxes that I can’t afford) is looking for a managing editor. You’ll be writing, commissioning, and editing content about sustainable food and farming and it pays £40–45,000pa.
🚨 The senior features social editor role at The Evening Standard closes at the end of this month. You’ll be working on social media content to promote their feature content and it pays £40–45,000pa.
NBC News is hiring an international reporter — you’ll mainly be focused on the Middle East but might pitch in with other regions too. It pays £54,000pa and up, depending on your experience and past roles.
🚨 And, finally, this is a managing editor role in the automotive sector, where you’ll be leading on content across all platforms. It pays £65–70,000pa.
EachOther is looking for pitches for their Inspired Source series to give a voice to people who haven’t previously been published. They pay £100 for a piece.
Grazia is open to pitches on relatable topics around money, relationships, cheating, exhaustion, friendship, dating, and work. Pays 50pppw.
CityA.M. need freelancers to work on the features and news desk next month. It pays £150 per shift and more details over this way.
There’s also some shift work open at Digital Spy, for anyone keen on covering movies, soaps, and TV.
🚨 A London Borough is in need of a digital communications officer on a short-term contract that focuses on social media and newsletters. It pays £22.19ph and the postcode lines up with Islington Council.
There are the barest bones of a job description here for someone to create “IT-focused and business-facing creative content”. It pays up to £263 per day and looks like you’ll be working on “how-to” content.
Levenshume Old Library is offering two emerging fiction writers a commission around the theme of ‘ghost stories’. There’s a total fee of £600.
Some casual work at News UK: they’re in need of a commercial copywriter to write radio advertising scripts and live blog reporters for shift work at The Sun.
Do you have a cannabis-related pitch? Send it to Cultivated News and they’ll pay you a flat rate of US$150 for the story.
Andy McGlashen is in the market for pieces for Field Notes, they want issues bird-loving and conservation-minded readers should be aware of.
🚨 Uppercut is open for pitches until next Monday, specifically stuff that ties in with Halloween and horror. It pays US$100 a piece.
Damian Kerlin is part of the launch of Material Queer, which will hit the web in early 2024. You can send your pitches now though — they’ll pay up to £220 for them.
And, finally, Gutter is looking for a managing editor on a freelance basis. They cover new Scottish writing with two editions a year. You’ll be paid £2,000 an issue. Found via the lovely MediaBeans.
🚨 A reminder that the award from The Gatliff Trust and the Scottish Island Explorer magazine closes this week. It’s for a writer under 30 who produces a 1,250-word piece on a topic associated with Herbert Gatliff. There’s a £1,000 prize.
🚨 The end of the month is also the deadline for The Write To End Violence Against Women Awards. There are categories for news, features, opinion, and self-published articles.
🚨 More deadlines! The UN Correspondents Association offers awards for the best coverage of the United Nations and UN agencies. There are prizes that add up to US$60,000 across print, broadcast, and climate change stories.
🚨 We’re just a sea of sirens at this point. The British Journalism Awards also closes for entries at the end of the month. Entries are free for women, people of colour, and disabled journalists who don’t have an employer who’ll pay their fees.
🚨 Postgrad.com is again offering £500 bursaries to anyone who is about to commence study on any postgraduate course, anywhere in the world. Make sure to get your applications in before the end of the month.
🚨 The UCLan Journalism Innovation & Leadership MA also closes for applications at the end of the month. You’ll need to be fast to apply for the scholarship though, as you need to do the course application first.
The Georgina Henry Award for Digital Innovation is now open — please apply! This award was one of the things that helped me realise Journo Resources could actually work out. It’s a £4,000 prize to a woman with a project at any stage. You can also read our guide to entries and previous successful ones here.
Entries are now open for the Amnesty Media Awards, celebrating excellence in human rights journalism. Some categories are free to enter, and you can apply for a sponsored place in others to cover your fee.
🚨 October 2 is the deadline for the Working-Class Writers’ Prize, which offers mentoring sessions, a £200 prize, and access to a number of writing events.
Our favourite scholarship of the year is also open — the Iceland Writers Retreat offers fully- and partially-funded places to writers who wouldn’t be able to attend otherwise. Honestly, it sounds dreamy.
🚨 And, finally, you also have until the end of the month to apply for mentoring with the John Schofield Trust. It’s a 12-month scheme for journalists who have between two and five years of experience working in print, digital, and broadcast.
Some days are just shit and make you question if you even want to do this job. Does it mean you should pack it all in? Not necessarily, writes Jenny Holliday in this essay about falling in and out of love with journalism.
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