Jobs and Opps at Stylist, BBC World Service, FITV, WIRED, and Many, Many More 🦙

Everything to add to your 'to-apply' list this week.

This weekend has been tiring, in many different ways. I’ve been in beautiful Glasgow since Wednesday, helping run and organise the annual Student Publication Association Conference, wonderfully named #SPANC23. It’s a name I really wish I could take credit for, but sadly was coined by two now anonymous delegates on Twitter back in the long-lost days of 2013.

I’ve been volunteering with the SPA ever since 2014 — just one year after it was founded. First, as a regional officer while at university, then as chair of the student executive. I’ve never quite managed to leave its grasp, now serving on its trustee board. The SPA has given something magical to me and many others over the years — it’s given me hope, friendship, solidarity, and, of course, practical skills. On the verge of a stress breakdown a few years ago, my partner rightly pointed out I either needed to leave the SPA or my job. It didn’t take much deliberation to leave the job instead.

This year, the run-up felt slightly uneasy. As soon as I set my laptop open on Friday, I was presented with the closure of gal-dem. A devastating gut punch for hundreds of thousands across the country, their whole team deserved so much more. They sparked an immeasurable change across the media landscape. This year’s SPA awards were also missing our human rights awards, formerly sponsored by EachOther. They were also the organisation that gave me my first editor job. I’ve watched quietly over the last few months as their staff page silently shrunk from seven to just two members. They’ve made no public statements about the future of the website.

How do you look forward to the future when it often feels like the industry is crashing down around you? Of course, the questions and realities of redundancies, working conditions, and funding floated around our discussions. But so too did the stories of hope. The student paper leading a cross-university campaign to force universities to record student suicides. New publications and ideas springing up each year. The community and commitment to sharing and lifting each other up.

The fight can feel long, endless, and — at times — hopeless. The fact is, none of us can do it alone. We can, however, do it together, pushing forward for the change we want — and need — to see. Independent media needs our clicks, it needs us as cheerleaders, and where we can, it needs our money. Most importantly, it needs all of it. As it does every year, the SPA reminds me hope is out there. We just need to harness it.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the editorial assistant gig at Factory International, looking after the Manchester International Festival. You’ll be paid £23–25,000pa and be writing regular original content.

• SWNS are a news agency that publishes stories that get sold to outlets across the globe. They’re looking for a features writer to focus on stories for magazines and real life. It pays £22–23,000pa.

• 🚨 [AD] I kid you not when I say this is my favourite job of the year when it rolls around. Falkland Islands Television is looking for a broadcast journalist. It pays £18,000pa, flights are included, and you’ll get subsidised accommodation at just £250 per month. And there are penguins.

• Rhotic Media is offering a degree apprenticeship for a trainee financial journalist. As well as learning how to write engaging stories, conduct interviews, and carry out investigative work, you’ll be paid £20–25,000pa and get a degree from London Southbank University.

• BBC World Service is in need of a journalism researcher to come up with ideas for stories and carry out in-depth subject research. It’s a Band B role, which means pay starts from £23,103pa.

• There are also two journalism assistant roles at BBC News Northern Ireland. This is also an entry-level role and involves booking guests, assisting production teams, and carrying out research. Pay starts from £20,536pa.

• The wonderful team at The Stage, which covers all things theatre, are looking for a junior reporter to join their news team. Genuinely, this looks excellent if you want to start out in the arts and it pays £22–23,000pa.

• The Stage is also looking for a production sub-editor to work across the web and print, making sure that everything looks just as it should. It pays £22–25,000pa.

• Found via our friends at MediaBeans, The Commonwealth Foundation is hiring for its graduate internship programme. It’s a six-month contract and pays £21,750pa and there’s a communications strand.

• This is a website content editor role with a mystery business we think is worth a shot at entry level — it pays from £23,000pa.

• And, finally, Caroo, the job search app, is looking for an editorial coordinator. It pays £22–25,000pa and you’ll be running and optimising their magazine.

• [AD] 🚨 🏡 A couple of jobs with Finixio closing this week — they pay well, give you a chance to hone a specialism, and can be worked anywhere in the world. There’s a news lead editor (£30–50,000pa), a business news reporter (£30–60,000pa) a tech news reporter (£30–60,000pa), and a crypto & finance news reporter (£30–60,000pa). Most need two years’ experience.

• Law.com International is hiring an editor to commission and edit articles from a variety of time zones, looking after news and analysis. They’re paying £35–55,000pa.

• Here is your selection of fun BBC jobs this week! The broadcaster has vacancies for a social media journalist at BBC Learning English, which helps audiences around the globe learn English. They also have openings for a podcast journalist and a Mandarin-speaking journalist in the same team. All are Band C and paying somewhere between £25,670–50,313pa.

• There are also a couple of senior journalist jobs — at Band D, they pay £36,195–64,688pa. There’s a growth specialist role in Cardiff looking after search, a digital reporter role on the BBC News website, and a senior gig covering stories in the North East of Scotland.

• EVA International Media is hiring a magazine and news editor to look after their B2B publication Airside International. You’ll be paid £28–30,000pa and they say it involves worldwide travel.

• ITV has an opening for a social video editor with their commercial team, looking after some of their biggest shows and platforms. It pays £25–35,000pa.

• The British Library is hiring a digital content creator to help them put forward a new digital presence that celebrates public libraries — have you ever heard of anything quite so wholesome? It pays £29,000pa.

• Port Technology International is looking for a staff reporter to tell stories through a variety of digital mediums. Pays £24–28,000pa.

• Farmers Guide is looking for a digital journalist to work across news and features for online audiences. It pays £26,500pa.

• And, last but not least, Imperial College London is looking for an assistant media officer. They’re paying £35,477–39,860pa.

• 🚨 Last call to apply for the jobs with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. They have an opening for a global health editor to cover everything from drug supply chains to Big Tobacco. Pays £50–55,000pa.

• 🚨 They are also looking for an editor for their enablers team, which looks at stories around corruption, dirty money, and wrongdoings around the world. Once again, it pays £50–55,000pa.

• [AD] 🚨 🏡 It’s also the last chance to apply for a couple of great roles at Finixio. Their digital PR and outreach manager gig pays £40–60,000pa and will see you leading a variety of campaigns and the chief news editor pays £60–100,000pa.

• The RHS is hiring a senior digital content editor to support their head of editorial. It pays £40–45,000pa and they’re flexible about your work location.

• BBC Children In Need has an advert out for a head of editorial, who will underpin and lead their long-term strategy. It’s Band E, which is £48,516–82,144pa.

• A couple of well-paid commercial opps here. Sanderson Recruitment is looking for a copywriter and is paying up to £350 per day. This one is for a Midlands utility company and pays £250 a day.

• Glossary, from WIRED, is looking for pitches on terms that grate you and words that live rent-free in your head. Get in touch with Eve Sneider this way.

• Josie Thaddeus-Johns has shared the pitching guide for Artsy and is open to pitches on all things museums, galleries, and artist profiles on a rolling basis. Pays US$200–500 per piece.

• Glamour UK has slots for senior freelance journalists for digital desk cover.

• Women’s Health Magazine is looking for Black fitness writers. Get in touch via the amazing We Are Black Journos.

• Ashley Giordana is commissioning stories for Overland Journal and Expedition Portal. Send your stories about vehicle, motorcycle, or human-powered travel.

• Hannah Keegan at Stylist is looking for experiential features and has put together a great list of the kinds of things they’re looking for.

• Kate Hammel is open to pitches for the Deep Dish newsletter, looking for food stories that connect to a place and its people. Pay starts at US$300.

• Contingent Magazine has a current call-out and an in-depth pitching guide (with rates). Send them your history ideas.

• Reader’s Digest want pitches about retirement, investment, property, and other money things. It pays up to £100.

• The great people of The Good Law project are looking for a copywriter/editor on a freelance contract, working 2.5 days a week.

• The lovely Lucy Middleton is on the search for freelancers in the Americas at Openly, to report on LGBTQ+ stories in the country you’re based.

• The Daily Dot’s newsletter Passionfruit is looking for a couple more pitches before the end of this week. Rates start at US$150 for think pieces, US$300 for interviews, and US$450 for reported features.

• AIM Group is looking for a freelance writer to cover the UK and Europe. They’re paying £40ph and it's likely to be a longer-term gig.

• And, finally, Exberliner Magazine is in need of stories, profiles, and investigations about Berlin. It’s a little vague on rates in the pitch guidelines though.

• Ability Today has reopened applications for its programme for disabled journalists. You’ll get an NCTJ-accredited Certificate in Foundation Journalism in an inclusive online environment, as well as mentoring. Courses are heavily subsided, so cost £199 instead of £2,000.

• The IPSE Freelancer of the Year Awards are open again for your entries, along with a couple of new categories. I’ve personally been rejected for this award about six times now, so I’ll join you in whacking another one in, because why not.

• 🚨 Today is the deadline to apply for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. It’s for reporters on all beats and desks and gives tonnes of structured learning as well as networking opportunities.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply to the Lyra Mckee Bursary Scheme 2023, run by The Centre for Investigative Journalism. You’ll get five months of paid training, including access to the #CIJSummerConference, mentoring programming, and a chance to pitch your stories to editors.

• 🚨 The Write to Work Programme is back. For unemployed residents in the Liverpool region, it offers a free six-week course. The next intake starts in May and is allocated as they come in, so apply quickly.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the pitch Young Sports Journalist Competition 2023. Apply to win a £150 prize, get your piece published, and be featured on their website.

• 🚨 There’s also just over a week to apply for the AGU Journalism Awards, which recognise excellence in science journalism for news, features, and sustained achievement. Each comes with a US$5,000 award.

• The Hugh Cudlipp Student Award 2023 is now open for entries. There’s a £1,500 prize for published work that explores an issue of public interest.

• The Advertising Producers Association Mentoring Programme is a free 16-week scheme to pair you with an industry professional across a variety of areas.

• The deadline is also fast approaching for National Geographic’s grants, which include storytelling. Grants can be anywhere up to $100,000 depending on the type and scope of the project. The deadline is Wednesday next week.

• 🆓 🎪 If you can make it to the International Journalism Festival in Perugia later this month tickets are free and they always have a stellar line-up of speakers.

• The Scott Trust Bursaries are back open. They cover course fees for an MA in Journalism, living expenses, up to six weeks of work experience at The Guardian, and a mentor from the paper.

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