Jobs and Opps at Social Streets, Drapers, The Skinny, The Mirror, and Many, Many More 🪩

And now I'm running off to swim...

At the risk of repetition, I wanted to start this week’s newsletter off by saying thank you to those of you who’ve filled out our annual survey. Even though we only send one email outside of Tuesdays a year, it always makes me feel a bit icky— no one asked for me to pop up in your inbox in the middle of a bottomless brunch on Saturday.

Our mentor (kindly supplied through the DBACE scheme, would recommend) said we need to aim for 100 to 500 responses in order to be able to work out meaningful insights and trends — but I had no real idea what kind of response we’d get. All day on Saturday I kept cracking it open and sneaking a peek, in between a car MOT, a bike fit, and attempting to rid my beloved cat of fleas (would not recommend).

Currently, we’re sitting at just over 200 responses, which is way above my initial hopes. Thank you all so much for your input — it’s probably been one of the most invigorating things we’ve done so far this year. Our survey is designed to make sure we’re reaching as many people as possible, and creating the best range of resources. Flicking through your responses has been such an inspiration, and I’m really excited to study it and come back to you all with what we’re going to do to improve.

If you’d like to add your voice, there’s still time — you can read more about why we put together our annual survey here and tell us what you’d like us to do in the future here. All answers are anonymous, no questions are compulsory, and you can also enter a draw to win a free JR membership too. And, as everyone always says, it’s quick to do! Thank you so much for your support — we can’t wait to share the results.

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Key: 🏡 Remote Working 🚨 Closing Soon 🌎 Global Opportunity 🕑 Part-time 🎪 Event

• BBC Asian Network is running a radio production development scheme which will give you hands-on experience working at the station. You’ll get one month of training, followed by three at a placement. It’s paid the National Minimum Wage.

• 🚨 Today is the last chance to apply to The Financial Times apprenticeship programme — you have until 11.59pm. You’ll be paid £21,749pa and get placements at both The FT and The Manchester Evening News and they will also pay for your NCTJ training as part of the programme.

• Plaster Magazine, a contemporary art poster magazine, is hiring a full-time staff writer to write creative pieces online and in print. It pays £20–25,000pa and while they say they want two years of experience, we think you could use student media.

• 🚨 This week is the last chance to apply for the multimedia journalist role and the local democracy reporter gigs with Iliffe Media. Both pay £22–28,000pa and I can’t stress enough how this is a really lovely company to work for.

• rad Cymru Wales is a paid traineeship with an independent production company, lasting until May 2024. You’ll be paid a minimum of £10.90ph and will also receive full training and support throughout.

• TVF Media is the UK’s leading provider of factual programming and once again is running a trainee scheme to help you learn all aspects of the TV business. It pays £20–25,000pa.

• 🚨 Applications to the Insider Lifestyle Fellow gig close this week. It’s a six-month job that pays £24,000pa and will give you the chance to write high-quality lifestyle stories in a digital newsroom.

• Attachment is an entertainment, pop culture, and culture marketing agency that has a vacancy for an intern for six months. It pays £23,000pa and you’ll get to work across all aspects of campaigns.

• Social Streets has opened up applications to their newsroom leadership programme. It’s a 15-month scheme, starting with three months of training and then 12 months working full-time at London Living Wage.

• And, finally, The Mirror, is looking for a trainee journalist. It pays £25–27,000pa and you’ll also get your NCTJ fees covered.

• 🚨 Last call for the role with Arts Professional. They are hiring a journalist to cover the arts sector and tell in-depth stories and investigations and it looks like a great gig. It pays £26,750pa.

• Drapers, the leading B2B publication for the fashion industry, has an opening for a news editor. It’s three days a week in the office and pays £35–40,000pa.

• Housing Digital and Build In Digital are advertising for a digital journalist to write news, features, and analysis. They’re paying £30,000pa.

• Our weekly haul of BBC jobs coming up next, these first ones are at Band C, which pays £25,670–50,313pa. They’re looking for a digital journalist who will work on podcasts and long-form audio, a journalist for their UK insight team which work on stories beneath the surface, and both a broadcast journalist and sports broadcast journalist in Belfast.

• For slightly more senior BBC roles at Band D (pays £36,195–64,688pa) this week we have a senior journalist in North Wales, a senior reporter in Newcastle, and some sub-editor positions with East Online. There’s also a fun role on the local front page team where you can request where you’d like to work in the country.

• IMPRESS, the press regulator, is hiring an education, ethics, training, and development manager. It sounds like a mouthful, but it’s a really interesting role on a new project leading on the development of ethics training. Pays £38,000pa.

• Tech Radar Gaming is looking for a news writer to join the team and work across game news, guides, and reviews. It pays £25,000pa.

• Mainly listing this so I can continue the swimming theme of this newsletter. Swim England is hiring a media manager to tell stories to journalists and on their own digital platforms. It pays £37,125–39,188pa.

• Waitrose, off of fancy food, is looking for a senior communications officer to focus on stories about sustainability and purpose. They’re looking for someone who knows what makes a story and has digital skills. Pays up to £60,600pa.

• 🚨 The investigations editor role with Liberty closes ahead of the next newsletter — it’s a really great chance to work on human rights stories that make an impact, with a huge range of national outlets. It pays £53,695.77pa.

• BBC Audio is looking for a content editor to lead the editorial vision in science and health content. It’s a Band E role, which means it pays £48,516–£82,144pa.

• There’s also a content editor role with BBC Sport, looking at Sport+ and short-form content. Again, it’s Band E, which means it pays £48,516–£82,144pa.

• NBC Universal is hiring a digital weekend editor to manage the site ‘overnight’ for US audiences. It pays £63–73,000pa.

• The Financial Conduct Authority is looking for a senior editor to lead their handbook and fees policy team. The role pays up to £67,000pa.

• 🏡 British Art Studies focus on the histories of British Art. They’re also in need of a freelance contributing editor to work with them for two years. Pays £10,000pa.

• I’ve got to be honest, I have no idea what the sentence I’m about to write means. Dazed is looking for pitches on “inter-clout relationships”. If you write this, please also let me read it so I can understand.

• 🚨 🏡 Three days left to apply to this role as a copywriter. It’s advertised through Harvey Nash and is paying up to £130 a day.

• The Skinny is looking for a clubs editor — you’ll be paid £100 a month, plus fees for articles you write. H/T MediaBeans.

• Arts Review is in need of smart, original, and incisive criticism on visual arts, books, TV, the internet, and more. They pay £250 for 800–1,000 words.

• 🌎 Come and work with me! The amazing team at Emojipedia is looking to expand the social team for World Emoji Day. It’s the most fun job I do every year — get in touch with Chris this way.

• The lovely people at the Film + TV Charity need a freelance digital content editor to support the toolkits they produce. It pays about £300 a day and will be about three days a week throughout July.

• Bloomberg is looking for all kinds of ideas for an ‘out of office’ theme to run in August. Pay is around US$1 per word. H/T to Ria for this one!

• Unbias the News is looking for one journalist from Berlin and one from Copenhagen for a project around the right to asylum and migrant activism.

• Game Developer is always looking for pitches for pieces and pay is about US$250–350 depending on the format.

• Logic Magazine, which covers tech and society, is currently looking for pitches, paying up to US$4,000.

• Finally, Rough Guides is putting together an LGBTQ+ travel guide. Get in touch if you know any major queer scene destination in the USA or Canada.

• 🚨 The Global Girl Media UK Mentorship Programme closes for entries this week. You’ll receive tailor-made mentoring and three days a week of training in digital journalism. It’s for women ages 18–22.

• 🚨 BAFTA Breakthrough also closes this Thursday. It’s a year-long programme offering career development and networking.

• Applications also close soon for the UCL East London Scholarships. Its offers free tuition fees and a £15,000 living allowance for people in East London on courses including audio storytelling for podcasts and radio.

• The Elephant Room is offering 10 people from the LGBTQ+ community the opportunity to be mentored by senior creatives from the queer community in honour of pride month. You can also apply to be a mentor if you want!

• 🚨 Tomorrow is the deadline for the next round of the Journalism Diversity Fund from the NCTJ, which will fund your NCTJ training. Full details here…

• 🚨 More deadlines! The Stationers’ Company Bursary scheme also closes this week, which provides both financial and mentoring support for a variety of journalism courses.

• 🚨 BFI Doc Society’s Made of Truth Short Film Fund closes before our next newsletter as well. It’s up to £25,000 in funding for short, non-fiction documentaries from emerging storytellers.

• 🎪 We also have tonnes of new events coming up — Isabella Silvers is running a session on how to get started with branded content, Rebecca Broad is looking at how to set up as a digital nomad, and Karen Edwards explores how to get into sustainable travel journalism.

• 👩🏽‍💻 We’ve got one more co-working session on offer this week if you need a bit of help to get through the sunny slump. Join us tomorrow at 11am for a power hour to get through everything you need to get done. Bring iced drinks.

• Next up in our ‘Day in the Life’ series, Catriona Stewart, columnist and writer-at-large at The Herald, talks about how community is the most important thing a journalist can focus on in their reporting.

• This is a really great piece from our reporter Hannah Bradfield looking at how to write the news for children. Even if you’re not a reporter at a specialist title for young people, they’ll still probably read or hear your news.

• And, finally, our former senior staff writer Faima Bakar has just launched a newsletter! Join them for personal writing, and essays on love, culture, work and social justice, all in your inbox.