Jobs and Opps at Reach, Supper Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, Us Weekly, Future, and Many, Many More 🦆

Plus, a video of a great duck!

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Good evening, it’s Jem here — apologies once again for screeching in quite so late with this newsletter. Every Tuesday, at our morning meeting, I tell my colleagues today is the day I’m going to start early. I’ll hammer through my searches and writing in the morning, before pressing send dead on 5pm, then kick back, relax, and enjoy my evening. I think this has happened a total of one (1) times. Truly, it was great, but I’ve not been able to replicate the feat since.

Instead, I’m sat here and it’s currently 7.13pm. Maybe it’s the post-Bank Holiday lull, the cheeky interview I squeezed into my diary at 3pm, or perhaps the seven million times I’ve refreshed the page to see my coursework marks which were due today. And, no, they’ve yet come in. In reality, I think it’s a little more about who sets the deadline and the task. Or to put it another way — I don’t seem to respect my own deadlines.

As a freelancer, I pride myself on getting stuff done on time — tell me the deadline and the word count and I’ll do my absolute damnest to get it to you on time. But who’s holding me accountable if it’s just me deciding when I’m going to publish my own newsletter? How do I know when I’ve done enough, found enough each week? And so, 5pm becomes elastic, other deadlines jostling up against it, in a sea of competing priorities. How do I give myself the agency to set my own priorities?

I feel like I can’t be alone in this — but as of yet, I’ve yet to find the answer to fix it. I did, however, take great enjoyment and inspiration from this duck I saw at the swimming pool yesterday. Maybe it’s a bit silly, but I’ve got to respect the little guy, diligently swimming his own swim, at his own pace, with not a care in the world. He also looks like he’s having a great time — perhaps we should all be a bit more duck.

[EVENT] Managing Your Freelance Finances Effectively

Our next event in our money series is on Thursday — we’re looking at how to make the most of what you have as a freelancer. We’ll be covering how to deal with late payments and cash flow, forecasting your income and expenses to feel more in control, and practical tips on pensions and putting money aside. As ever, there’s the option to either watch live or watch back.

• Supper Magazine is hiring an editorial assistant to work on their bi-monthly publication focused on the food and drink sector. They say it’s perfect for a recent graduate or someone who’s just finished their NCTJ. It pays £21–24,000pa.

• This is an internship opportunity in broadcast PR and content creation with Relations Group. There are a couple of options available, including a summer internship, a year-long placement, or a full-time job. It pays £18–23,500pa.

• 🚨 This week is your last chance to apply for the deputy editor role at Bristol 24/7. Don’t be fooled by the title, it’s very open to people just starting out and has a focus on training. It pays £24,000pa, rising to £25,000pa after probation.

• Also, a reminder for the F1 Digital Journalist role with GPFans Global. You’ll produce and generate ideas for their Formula 1 content, as well as covering breaking news quickly. It pays £24,000pa.

• 🚨 Reach has opened up a whole bunch of journalism internships, each one lasting three months and paying a total of £5,850 outside London or £6,410.75 for those in the capital. If you apply to any of these, please do say we sent you! There are roles at The Manchester Evening News, The Mirror, The Daily Record, The Liverpool Echo, Nottinghamshire Live, MyLondon, WalesOnline, Birmingham Live, Bristol Live, and Chronicle Live.

• I’m not sure if we flagged this one before but the FT Weekend Magazine is hiring an editorial intern for three months It’s specifically for people who feel they’re underrepresented in the creative industries and pays the London Living Wage.

• Grayling, a global PR and comms agency that also shares a name with a chip shop I used to work at, has a bunch of summer intern roles available, also for those from underrepresented backgrounds. All the roles pay £24,600pa and there are spots across creative in London and Manchester, as well as design and content and social and digital.

• United Christian Broadcasters is hiring a broadcast journalist trainee. It’s a 12-month training opportunity to work in a newsroom covering national and international news and current affairs. It pays a starting salary of £23,000pa.

• Caters, a news agency that supplies stories to publications across the globe, is hiring a social media journalist. They’re hoping to find someone with a knack for uncovering viral videos. It pays £22,500–24,000pa.

• And, finally, Nuts for Print produces three magazines a year in the lifestyle and corporate events space and needs an editorial assistant to join the team. You’ll be paid £22,500–24,500pa and will work on writing content.

• Property Week is looking for a deputy news editor to work to daily deadlines, create high-quality content, and help inspire the wider editorial team. It pays £30–32,500pa.

• This looks like a fascinating gig with the BBC — working on their premium analysis team you’ll be paid £28–38,000pa to help commission, edit, and curate the sharpest analysis from the correspondents across the world.

• I’ve mentioned National Highways before — they always come up erroneously in my searches for pothole reporters and stuff, but this week I’ve got another work that actually works for JR, which is exciting! Their social media manager role pays £36,720–41,180pa and there are two positions available.

• 🚨 The Alzheimer Society is hiring a deputy magazine editor for their magazine Dementia Together, which aims to help people feel less isolated and better able to make decisions. You’ll be paid £29,969—33,298pa to support the editor.

• A reminder again of the F1 News Editor role with GPFans Global. You’ll curate broad, authoritative output about Formula 1 and will be paid up to £32,000pa.

• Future is hiring a social video development manager. It pays £29–45,000pa and you’ll be looking at how to optimise content across different social platforms and develop new formats.

• Future is also looking for a social video editor for PC Gamer and GamesRadar, where you’ll work directly on creating video content for a variety of social platforms. They’re paying £25–30,000pa.

• Lipton Media, a recruiter, is hiring a senior reporter to report on energy and sustainability. You’ll work on daily news stories and regular features for the website and magazine. It pays £35–40,000pa.

• A few mysterious others through recruiters: this is a deputy editor for a B2B publisher paying £26,000pa, this is a reporter in the tech space paying £28–32,000pa, and a social content manager gig paying £40–45,000pa.

• The Health Service Journal correspondent job is still open for applications. You’ll cover a national and regional patch looking at one of the most high-profile areas of public policy and will be paid £33,000pa.

• Bradford Culture Company is hiring a digital content producer to create a range of innovative digital content, just in time for the city to become city of culture. It pays £35,000pa.

• And, finally, there was no way I wasn’t listing this job as a videographer with Domino’s Pizza, though I’m outraged it’s only a ‘pizza discount’ not ‘free pizza’. Either way, you’ll be paid up to £37,000pa to create fun pizza videos.

• Health Service Journal is in need of a projects editor to lead the development and delivery of all their editorial products. It pays up to £55,000pa and they’re ideally looking for someone with a writing or editing background.

• SourceMaterial is hiring a senior reporter/deputy editor to work with them on high-impact investigations on climate, democracy, and corruption. They’re looking for someone with a strong news sense and are paying £55–65,000pa.

• Future is looking for a head of video development, who will either be based in London or Bath, to lead their audience team, which supports all their editorial brands on SEO, social media, and content. It looks like it focuses on social video and new formats. Pays £52–70,000pa.

• And, finally, here’s an editorial director role working to improve audience engagement. This one pays £70–80,000pa.

• First up, let’s talk shifts. Metro.co.uk is looking for a freelance sports reporter to work on the digital sports team.

• MailOnline is seeking a freelance sport social media assistant to help manage its sport social feeds. We imagine this will be an in-office role.

• And, in what’s turning out to be a rather sporty freelance section today, our pals at media beans spotted this freelance technical football writer role with FIFA.

• Us Weekly, a US-based entertainment outlet, is looking for early morning editors and writers, likely based in the UK due to the time difference. You cover timely celeb stories across a five-hour shift, paid at US$40 per hour.

• Georgia Aspinall is now a senior editor at Grazia UK, and running the magazine’s parenting platform The Juggle, so send your parenting pitches this way.

• Educational YouTube channel, The Entire History of Humankind, is looking for a freelance science writer to work on scripts.

• Leicester-based Great Central Gazette is open to solutions-focused features about community cohesion in the region. Pays £125 per story

• London School of Emerging Technology is looking for an entry-level freelance journalist who’ll work up to 20 hours a week for them. It pays £12ph.

• The International Journalism Network is seeking stories about journalism tools, apps, and resources that make journalists’ lives easier. Pays US$200 per article.

• Library of Arabic Literature is accepting pitches about Arabic literature for its blog until June 1. Pays US$400 per post.

• You’ve now got until May 17 to submit a pitch for Unbias the News’s Democracy Playbook project. Pays US$500.

• Katy Harrington at The Irish Independent says she gets hardly any feature pitches from men. If you have something relevant to their readership, now’s your chance!

• Travel + Leisure is assigning hotel reviews and wants to hear from you if you’ve stayed from somewhere extraordinary lately. More info over this way.

• JR reader Angus Reilly has got in touch to say he’s commissioning ideas for Engelsberg Ideas, a UK-based outlet that publishes work on history, international affairs and culture. They pay £1,200 for essays, £400 for reviews and £300 for notebooks. Email angus@engelsbergideas.com.

• And, finally, if you’re a subscriber to the amazing Talking Travel Writing, you’ll know this already — but they’re taking the month of July off. They’re paying £125 for practical advice pieces of up to 500 words to cover the gap.

• Applications are now open for the next cohort of the Ability Today NCTJ programme. It’s a subsided programme to gain the Certificate in Foundation Journalism over nine months and is all fully remote.

• [AD] A reminder that applications are still open for the 10-week fact-based storytelling course with Jem Bartholomew at City, University of London. You’ll look at everything from memoirs and essays to travel writing and biographies.

• [AD] Applications are also open now for the Young Journalists’ Academy, a free programme for young people to meet and interview journalists and editors, create podcasts and videos, and learn how to report live news. More info here.

• 🎪 Our next event is on Thursday! Come and join us to talk all things freelance finances with Maddy Fry. We’’ll be chatting about late payments, cashflow, predicting your income, pensions, and much, much more.

• 🎪 Also coming up this month is the first two events in our ideas series. Join us to talk all things audience trends and how to find inspiration in your everyday life.

• 🚨 If you know a young person in a non-selective state school, send them the ABSW’s Young Science Writer of the Year Award. It closes this week and offers a prize of up to £1,000 and a visit to the BBC Science HQ in Cardiff.

• The deadline for nominations to the National Diversity Awards is a little over a week away. There are a range of categories for their positive role model awards, as well as the entrepreneur of excellence.

• 🚨 Applications close on Sunday to the Felicity Bryan Mentorship Scheme, open to anyone who wants to get into publishing. The mentorship lasts for three months and includes a range of placements, all paid at the Oxford Living Wage.

• Applications for early-career mentoring with the John Schofield Trust are open! You must be within the first five years of your career and they’ll prioritise people who come to the industry with less privilege and fewer connections.

• The Women Photograph Mentorship Programme is open for 2024, offering support to women at the beginning of documentary or journalistic practice. They will prioritise photographers who want to work locally.

• Substack has launched a new fellowship for the “next wave of video stars”, offering support to those working primarily on TikTok to monetise their content as shows on the platform. More details this way.