Jobs and Opps at the BBC, The Sunday Times, Tatler, And Many, Many More 🥐

Everything you should apply for this week.

I’ll be honest; the week leading up to this newsletter has been slightly fraught — so I hope you’ll excuse me for the lateness of this newsletter. I’m one of the trustees at the Student Publication Association (SPA), an incredible volunteer-run charity which supports student journalists across the UK and Ireland. It’s incredibly close to my heart, having stumbled across it about a decade ago, when it was a fledging effort by a small group of students who believed a support network should exist.

In the ten years since, it’s fair to say I’ve never really left. I first became a regional officer, a chair, and then, most recently a trustee. At many points, my friends and family have asked when it will end and why I care so much. At times, I’ve often asked myself the same question; especially this week, as we run up to our 11th National Conference in Bristol. Our team are all superstars, but there’s no way to get around the fact you’re a dozen volunteers organising a conference for 300 people. It’s going to be stressful at some point, no matter what mitigations you take.

The answer, in truth, is twofold. Firstly, the SPA was one of the most pivotal building blocks of my own career. As someone coming to the industry with no connections or insider knowledge, I didn’t know where to start. This support network gave me some of my best and closest friends. It gave me the confidence to reach out to people, put myself forward, and just go and make stuff. It was, undoubtedly, one of the major catalysts for Journo Resources. I want to make sure other people can have that.

Secondly, the SPA is an endless source of hope in an industry typified by gloom and dread. Every year I’m heartened when reading entries to our national awards, with too many incredible stories and innovations to recount. And, hundreds of these amazing people decide to take a weekend of their lives to connect and grow. We all know that the next generation is incredible already, but to see it in action is truly special.

So, as we pull together the final strands for what I know will be an amazing conference, remember that whoever you are, student or otherwise, and no matter how tough it gets, there is a community out there who want to help and support you — and the future really does have hope. Oh, and if you’re on the organising team with me, we are so nearly there gang, we’ve got this 💚

• Jamie Oliver Group is hiring for a junior content editor who will write news and features for the website, as well as help with recipe uploads. You need a little experience or a relevant academic background and it pays £30,000pa.

• [AD] Money Wellness is offering a hybrid journalist and content creation role, where you’ll cover money-saving news and craft unique guides. It pays £25–30,000pa and it says writing is more important than experience.

• The Law Society is hiring a junior press officer to brief journalists, handle media enquiries, and create content. Friend of JR and freelance journalist Michele Theil actually started out there — so it can be a springboard to a journalism gig. It pays £25,125–29,063pa.

• 🚨 It’s your last chance to apply for The Times and The Sunday Times training programmes. They’re offering a salary of £25,000pa to join a two-year programme — which includes your NCTJ training. You can join as a sub-editor, an audience journalist, or a video producer.

• [AD] Our pals at News Associates are looking for a marketing and admissions assistant to run their social media channels and create website content. You’ll be paid £26,500pa and there’s just a week to apply.

• 🕐 [AD] IMPRESS, the press regulator, has an ad up for a regulatory assistant to help with its mission of restoring integrity and trust to the news industry and it’s a great way to make contacts across the industry. It pays £25,300pa.

• 🏡 Live Science is hiring an ecommerce writer to work on their buying guides, product reviews, and spotlight deals. It looks like this can be done remotely or from their offices in Bath and pays £24–28,00pa.

• The BBC is looking for another journalism co-ordinator, this time in Dunstable. It’s an entry-level journalism role with BBC Three Counties Radio and you’ll be paid £24,039–25,000pa.

• This is a six-month communications assistant placement with White Cube, to work across press, marketing, and digital. It pays £25,000pa.

• And, finally, spiked has reopened its internship programme for 2024. The role pays £21–28,000pa and they say you need no previous experience.

• 🏡 The Conversation is a super cool site that brings academic work to the public using journalist editors. It’s hiring for an audience development coordinator to work across social media, newsletters, and more. It pays £30–40,000pa.

• 🕐 The BBC is also hiring a senior journalist reporter in Norwich this week — the hometown of two of our staff team! It’s a part-time role for two days a week as part of a job share and you’ll cover politics. It pays £37,845–46,000pa FTE.

• Suffolk Magazine, a part of Newsquest, is advertising for their next editor. It’s a luxury lifestyle brand and will pay a salary of up to £30,000pa.

• Health Service Journal is hiring a correspondent to cover public policy at both a regional and national level, from exclusives to investigations. It pays £33,000pa.

• A slightly wild pay range on this one; Who What Wear is advertising for a videographer and editor to produce content for the site and social channels. It pays anywhere between £29–40,000pa. Future also has a video producer role open with PC Gamer — that one pays £26–35,000pa.

• [AD] Money Wellness is offering a hybrid journalist and content creation role, where you’ll cover money-saving news and craft unique guides. It pays £25–30,000pa and looks like a pretty chill application process.

• Your weekly copywriter job here — this one is with an online retail company and wants someone who can work on SEO-style pieces. You’ll be paid £25–35,000pa. There’s also a content writer job focused on beauty here — pays £26,000pa.

• Brain Tumour Research is looking for a PR officer who will put patients and families at the heart of their work — with a lot of work directly with them. The job ad looks like you don’t need years of experience and it pays £33,000pa.

• The Royal Statistical Society has a vacancy for a head of content, who’ll oversee the creation and commissioning of accurate, engaging, and challenging content. It looks like a really interesting remit with a wide audience and pays £45–55,000pa.

• [AD] A reminder of this editorial lead role that’s open at the moment at ExchangeWire. They say it’s the perfect role for someone who wants to shape the editorial focus of the publication. It pays £40,000pa.

• 🚨 Opportunity Green is hiring a multimedia content producer to bring the best out of their experts and help to break down complex subjects — they say it’s a great gig for someone passionate about tackling climate change. It pays £40,000pa.

• Flo Health is hiring a senior content editor, who they say will be responsible for creating think pieces, investigative journalism, and trend reports (with the help of a freelance roster). It pays £64–68,000pa.

• Newsweek has just reposted its advert for a freelance news reporter to work for the London bureau on a flexible basis. 

• Tatler is looking for a freelance reporter to work 5 days a week from the end of April onwards. You’ll be working across royals, glamour, and culture, and paid a daily freelance rate. 

• Manchester-based TikTok production company Street Interviews is looking for a freelance presenter to do, well, street interviews, as well as present for brands. Pays £15–20ph. 

• Nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations is now accepting pitches, and you can see what they’re specifically interested in here. Pay typically ranges from US$3–6,000.

• [AD] NBC News Digital is looking for a freelance reporter to work Saturdays and Sundays covering breaking news for the international bureau in London. The role pays £190 per shift.

• [AD] AKADi Magazine is recruiting an entry-level freelance journalist/content creator to join its digital team, writing stories of interest for Black British/African/Ghanaian readers.  

• Matt Brown is accepting pitches for his newsletter Extra Points, which is about off-the-field stories in college sports. Rates typically start at US$350. 

• Political commentary magazine Current Affairs, is always searching for new writing to commission. 

• Anna Rose Iovine at Mashable is looking for pitches about how tech intersects with relationships, romantic or otherwise. 

• Allison Parshall has officially started as an editor at Scientific American and is assigning stories about all kinds of scientific news, as well as accepting pitches. 

• Meg O’Connor is looking for reported pieces and personal essays about the US criminal legal system for The Appeal. Pays US$1/word. 

• Joe Erbentraut at Thrillist is looking for freelance pitches on travel, experience, and local culture.   

• Eva Sandoval is still looking for spring, outdoor, and cool (as in, the weather) destination pitches for BBC Travel’s SpeciaList column.  

• Jewish Unpacked is expanding its pool of freelance writers for its new “Gen Z Voices” series.

• 🎪 We’re so very excited to reveal our next load of events! We’re now taking bookings for our money series, looking at how to find more work when opportunities are scarce, making life work as a digital nomad, and managing freelance finances and tackling late fees.

• 🎪 Tickets are also live for our ideas series too; the first two events cover finding story ideas using audience trends and tools and how to find inspiration in everyday life. All are available live or as a watch back.

• ⏯️ 🚨 Finally, there’s still time to get a watch back ticket for tonight’s event with Meehika Barua on breaking into lifestyle journalism if you missed out.

• 🆓 This free event from Creative Access looks really great! It’s a session on how to navigate a career in writing — including JR fave Isabella Silvers, as well as author Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom and TV writer Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom.

• And, finally, apologies for running out of time! You can see all the latest updates on our awards, funding, and mentoring pages — which are refreshed each week so you can see all deadlines as they approach.