Jobs and Opps at the i Paper, QI, The Economist, Aurelia and Many, Many More 🐡
Everything you should be applying for in journalism this week 📱
It’s a pretty packed newsletter this week, almost immediately running up to the character limit. It’s a good problem to have, and the reason why I’m keeping this message at the top short and sweet. However, it also seemed a good moment to explain how we decide which jobs to list each week.
The biggest deciding factors for us is whether or not an organisation lists a salary. Or, to put it another way, we will never advertise a staff job that doesn’t openly list a salary range. For us, it’s common sense for both employees and employers, and it doesn’t make a difference whether it’s an entry level role, or one heading up a publication.
Salary secrecy breads inequality and pay gaps. It also means people, at all levels of their career, have no idea what the industry standard is for fair pay at their level. And it wastes everyone’s time when candidates get to interview stage before finding out a salary doesn’t work for them. To put it bluntly, if you’re a company embarrassed by publicly stating a salary for a job, you need to take a long look at why hiding it is the solution.
PS. If you’d like some extra resources, you can also take a look at our salaries database and freelance rates database to give you a sense of what other outlets pay.
[Event] How To Write Your Book As A Journalist 📚
Plenty of journalists have dreams of writing their own books, but how do you actually make it happen? Our next event promises to demystify all. Natalie Morris, author of Mixed/Other and senior writer at Metro.co.uk will be talking about everything from getting the right idea to writing a proposal and signing up with agents.
The first one is a good one! The i Paper are hiring for two apprentices, who will be paid a salary of £22-25,000pa, get to complete a special journalism project and get your NCTJ Diploma funded. Apply here.
🚨 🕙 🏡 I used to do the social media here! Now Business Fights Poverty are looking for a social media intern for six months to help them create engaging content. Pays £16-18,000pa FTE and based wherever you like. It closes on Thursday though, so act quick!
🏡 An absolute slew of Local Democracy Reporter roles here from Reach, who say they could be entry level. They pay £23,349.99pa and there are roles in Derbyshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Grimsby, Teesside, Surrey, Essex, Lancaster, Leicester, Wolverhampton and Watford. Told you there were a few.
The Economist’s Nico Colchester Journalism Fellowships are open. There’s one fellowship for a UK-based writer and one someone in the EU. It lasts three months and you’ll get £6,000 to cover your costs.
QI, off of Sandi Toksvig, are looking for a research intern to find little known facts for the show. It’s £450pw for six months.
🚨 Last chance for the FT’s Maisie Hylton Fellowships for aspiring production journalists. The six month fellowships pay £2,400 a month and close on Monday.
🚨 This is the last call for the edit assistant job in Norwich at Thrive. You’ll be working in the health space and paid up to £17,000pa.
🏡 A fun one sent in by one of our readers here! This is a researcher/reporter gig is a mixture of helping with their monitoring and information service and launching a new subscription service. Pays £24,000pa.
There’s also a local democracy reporter job going at Newsquest in Hereford, similar to the ones above. Pays £22-25,000pa.
Finally, Cannabis Health are looking for a journalist. They cover CBD and medical cannabis and are paying £18-20,000pa DOE.
DIGIT are expanding their editorial team and are in need of a digital editor. It pays a pretty respectable £25-30,000pa.
Boring Money (who aren’t actually boring) are looking for an online content editor to focus on pensions and investments. Pays £40,000pa.
🚨 🏡 Last call for this job with CX Today, who are looking for a tech journalist to join the the team. It’s remote working and pays £25-35,000pa.
Executive Grapevine are looking for a digital B2B journalist to write on business and HR. Pays £28,000pa and looks like a good second job vibe.
🚨 🏡 Also last orders for the communications officer/copy writer job at PRSB. It pays £27,000pa and you’ll be working across videos, podcasts, blogs and more.
A mid-level editor gig here in video, editing VTs for broadcast and online. Pays £25,000pa.
🚨 🏡 Final call for the Local Democracy Content Editor job at Reach, who are looking for someone to manage their team of local democracy reporters. Pays up to £34,497pa. Closes on Friday.
🏡 They also have a tonne of Local Democracy Reporter roles, which could work for a next step in regional news. They pay £23,349.99pa, roles in Derbyshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Grimsby, Teesside, Surrey, Essex, Lancaster, Leicester, Wolverhampton and Watford.
If you fancy something a little bit different, two roles here as journalism lecturers. One at Robert Gordon University pays £34,804-49,553pa and the one focused on sport at UCFB pays £36-40,000pa.
🚨 🏡 Also the last call for this role at Premier as an Insight Administrator, where you’ll be helping with the creation of podcasts, videos and online resources. Pays £30-35,000pa.
🏡 We just had to include this comms officer job mainly because the job description has been written entirely in the first person. It’s also £32-35,000pa and home working for a non-profit, so a good gig too.
Finally, two more comms focused ones. The British Heart Foundation are looking for a communications and engagement manager with a journalist background (£35-37,500pa) and Warwickshire Police are looking for a digital creative content officer to focus on their social and website (£32,673-34,578pa).
Basit Mahmood at Left Foot Forward is always looking for pitches, especially if you’re from an underrepresented or working class backgrounds.
DISPATCH are looking for a woman or non-binary writer to contribute an essay on Bend It Like Beckham. It pays £200 and they’re particularly keen to hear from writers of South Asian heritage.
Aurelia Magazine need a freelance social media assistant. It’s three hours a week to start off with, and pays £10 per hour.
Sonder London are looking for a senior copywriter to join the team for one day a week. You’ll be writing opinion pieces, press releases, and social posts. It pays £150-170 per day and they’re lovely.
🚨 Last chance to work with my old gang at Save the Student. They’re looking for a content editor for 15 hours a week (either remotely or on their boat) and it pays £15-20ph.
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, from gal-dem, is looking for a writer from Birmingham for a commission.
🏡 An online production editor gig here with a publisher to make sure digital content is tip top. It pays £14.94-16.09ph, which is very weirdly specific.
P&H Engineering Magazine are looking for a freelance editor to work on their quarterly magazine and put it all together. It pays £2,000 per issue.
The Calvert Journal are looking for pitches to mark 30 years since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as their Women Recollected Series.
Shifts! The Sun are looking for digital consumer reporters for shifts, while Not Actual Size are looking for social community managers to join their agency and focus on Insta.
Know your stuff on Opera? Opera Live at home are looking for a freelance social media manager to work for an initial two hours a week.
One more artsy one to end on – Queens Hall Arts are looking for some freelance marketing help and will pay £25ph. It’s about 12 hours a week.
🚨 The Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writer’ Programme closes at the end of the month and looks wonderful. It’s open to writers of journalism, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry and comes with mentoring, workshops, and a bursary of up to £1,500.
A couple of spaces left on Reform Radio’s podcasting course for 19-30s looking for employment in Greater Manchester. Full details here.
🎪 A few reminders on our events coming up – we have our event on writing your own book with Natalie Morris next week, an event on how to network as a journalist with Isabel Sachs of I Like Networking, and I’m running one on how to start your own publication.
🚨 The deadline is tomorrow for the BAFTA Scholarship Programme which offers up to £12,000 in funding for course fees or living expenses, for people looking to undertake study in broadcast journalism and other areas.
🚨 Also the last chance for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships which close in two days time. You’ll receive up to $85,000 in a stipend to spend 10 months focusing on the issues addressing journalism.
🚨 Two NewsSpectrum fellowships closing on Friday, to enable joint reporting projects between minority and majority language media. One offers funding for specific reporting projects and the other to enable short term professional placements.
🚨 A deadline of the end of the month to enter the Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism. There are categories for freelancers, fixers, and local reporters and a prize of $5,000.
🚨 Everything is closing this week! This one is the Earth Journalism Network’s grant for stories about fisheries subsidies issues. Full details over here.
🚨 Also closing on Friday is the International Women’s Media Foundations 2021 competition for photojournalism. Prizes of up to $20,000.
We published loads this week. First up, Heather Graham spoke to Marianna Spring, Christine Kenneally and Abby Lee Hood about starting out in journalism.
Senior staff writer Faima takes a comprehensive look at whether white editors should move out of the way sometimes for journalists of colour. Read here.
Finally, Umar Hassan gives an insight into the typical day of Birmingham Live’s Politics and People Editor Jane Haynes and Amrit Gahir, an On-Screen Journalist at ITV News Central.
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