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I don’t officially finish for the year until this evening, but I have already put the out-of-office on. It’s a firm yet friendly one. No, I will not be replying until 2023. No, no one else is working. Don’t contact them. Yes, I am probably swimming or drinking Bucks Fizz right now. My brain has been slipping at the seams for a few days and whacking it on early felt like the best way to stop anyone else trying to claw their way into what’s left of my work time this year.

Like many of us, I tend to find the time before holidays even more stressful. The news doesn’t stop just because we’re off. Your inbox still gets filled up with a lot of PR messages (no shade). And, if you’re self-employed, there’s no one to tell you that it’s fine, the world won’t break, and you can just leave it all until next year. Inevitably, I always try and fit too much in, and before you know it it’s 2am and counting.

Our very first Christmas party at The Design Museum!

This year, I’m trying to make an extra effort to prioritise and safeguard space for the festive. As well as my early OOO, we also held our first-ever staff party yesterday. Maybe party is too strong a word for the three of us wandering around the Design Museum and eating food, but it’s amazing to actually meet the people you spend all day talking to online. And, as an organisation, it boggles my mind that we now have enough people that we can actually have a party in the first place.

Journo Resources simply wouldn’t be possible without the help you give us week in, week out. Whether it’s using the site or recommending it to friends, joining us as a member or sending a reply to one of these emails — none of this would be possible without you and your support. We really can’t thank you enough. I hope whatever you’re doing over the next few weeks, and whatever your work schedule looks like, you manage to find some time to rest, recharge, and close the laptop.

Buy Our Magazine Or A Gift Membership This Christmas ☃️

We know it’s a tough time for everyone at the moment — but we’re incredibly grateful for any support you might be able to give us this festive season. Journo Resources is entirely reliant on donations from our members and the adverts we sell. December is particularly hard for us as job adverts dry up, but we still keep working! You can support us by buying a copy of our beautiful printed magazine, gifting a membership as a festive gift, or signing up for our membership scheme yourself.

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• The BBC’s Journalism Fast Track Apprenticeship is now open for applications until February, so there’s plenty of time to mull it over. This is specifically for school leavers or career changers, so no need for a degree. Pays £19,500pa, with an added £4,918pa for those based in London, Guernsey, or Jersey.

• 🚨Your last chance to apply for The Henley Standard’s reporter role, which closes in a couple of days’ time. They’re expanding their team and you’ll be paid from £19,000pa. I promise I’ll actually publish their Day in the Life TikTok this week.

• 🚨 We’re not here next week, so here’s an advance reminder that the jobs with SEEN close on January 2. They’re looking for producers/journalists to help publish human interest stories. Junior roles start from £1,200pm to £4,000pm for senior producers.

• There’s a junior content writer gig here where you’ll be working on blog posts, websites, social media, and all sorts. Pays £20–24,000pa, though we’re not quite sure who it’s for, so let us know if you do get to interview.

• Cogora has another opening for Pulse, their multi-award-winning magazine. You don’t need to have any experience of health journalism previously, and you’ll be paid £25,000pa for the reporter role. It’s a great place to build a niche.

• 10,000 Able Interns is open for applications again — they connect disabled students and grads with paid placements of six weeks or more. There are tonnes of placements in creative, culture, and marketing. Pays London Living Wage.

• We couldn’t miss out the fact that Transport for London has a comms internship open. Imagine getting to just write about trains and tubes! And buses! Maybe I’m just a geek, but it sounds cool. Pays in line with London Living Wage.

• There’s also one open at Eurostar too, which pays £20,374.37. H/T MediaBeans.

• A reminder that applications are open for the FT’s grad scheme. It pays £28,000pa, which rises to £35,000pa by the time you’re in your third year. You can see our guide to applications here.

• Aesthetica is looking for a digital content assistant to help plan, produce, and commission bits and pieces for their magazine. Pays £22,000pa.

• National Club Golfer is looking for a journalist and is paying from £22,000pa.

• And, finally, found via our friends at MediaBeans, Tourism Ireland has a tonne of internship vacancies open in loads of countries. All of them have salaries listed and there are loads in the media space.

• Your final BBC jobs of the year are here! There is a really nice job as an assistant producer at BBC Scotland Investigations, where you’ll be finding and developing stories for TV, which is Band C so £25,670–50,313pa.

• There’s also a journalist role at the Nine, a journalist position with BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and a broadcast producer at BBC Breakfast. They’re also Band C, so again pay £25,670–50,313pa.

• FullFact is looking for a news and online journalist for a six-month contract, working on features and fact-checks. It pays £26,777pa.

• 🚨 Ignore the site — this closes at 23.59pm today, but there’s a weird glitch. People Management, part of Haymarket, is looking for a deputy editor for maternity cover and is paying £35–40,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 Do you know your YouTube? MSP Marketing Edge is looking for someone with a journalism background to help them build their video learning hub. It’s all remote working and pays £30–40,000paa.

• 🚨Everything is closing, as expected at this time of year. George Buckland is still looking for an internal comms writer to write a wide range of copy. It pays £27–33,000pa and is hybrid working.

• 🚨🏡🌍We’re not here next week, so here’s an advance reminder that the jobs with SEEN close on January 2. They’re looking for producers/journalists to help publish human interest stories. Junior roles start from £1,200pm to £4,000pm for senior producers.

• 🚨 TTG Media is looking for a travel news reporter to join them and report on the travel industry itself. They’re an award-winning business, focused on exclusives and will pay £28–30,000pa.

• 🚨 Also closing before our next newsletter is the communications officer job with the British Beer and Pub Association. You’ll be working across the launch of their new website and social media presence and it pays £30–34,000pa.

• The Ladies European Tour (off of golf, also LET for short) is looking for a digital content producer/editor to work on player features and highlight packages. They’re paying about £30,000pa.

• The LET also has an opening for a media official to write and produce interviews, reports, and features about golf things. Again, it pays about £30,000pa.

• BBC Sport is looking for a producer to lead across various different TV strands. It’s Band D, which means it pays £36,195–64,688pa. Hopefully, you know more about the sport than I do if you’re applying for this one.

• 🕑 This really is the last BBC job we’re going to list in 2022. Wild. The Today Programme is looking for an assistant editor who’ll take the lead on original journalism and coverage that makes an impact. It’s £48,516–82,144pa, for what I think is 3.5 days a week.

• 🚨🏡 Ignore what it says on the site, this is a bug we’re getting fixed in the New Year. The Know is looking for an editor to direct content strategy and help engage more women in the news. Pays £30–40,000pa but you do need to apply today.

• 🚨🏡 The role as deputy editor at DeSmog also closes this week too — join them to help expose obstacles to climate change action through impactful journalism. They’re paying £40–45,000pa.

• 🚨🏡🌍 We’re not here next week, so here’s a reminder to apply to the Output Editor job at SEEN. It closes on January 2 and you’ll be paid £4–6,000pcm to oversee their Snapchat output. They are looking for about five years of experience.

• 🏡 Sifted.eu is looking for a commissioning editor to commission and edit a range of pieces from both their team and from business leaders. They’re paying £40–55,000pa and you can be based in any tech hub in Europe.

• 🏡 Football Insider is hiring a bunch of correspondents, all of which pay up to £40,000pa. They’re looking for one in London, one in Merseyside, and a more general breaking news reporter.

• Hull Museums & Gallery is looking for a freelance copywriter and content manager to help update their website and print brochures. It’s at least a £12,000 fee for the project.

• Future Perfect at Vox is now accepting pitches. They’ve got an incredibly detailed pitching guideline doc and they’re paying US$0.5–1 per word.

• Andscape is looking for pitches of Black people doing interesting things in the sneaker industry. The pay starts from US$500.

• Katie Dancey Downes is looking for pitches for the next edition of Index on Censorship. They’ve written a tonne of details in this thread.

• Smithsonian Magazine is looking for pitches for a variety of their history-focused sections. There are some good examples on their thread too.

• Kirstie Pickering is looking for a writer who can talk about how they speak to their children about money during a cost of living crisis. More details once you get in touch.

• Mobilisation Lab works with writers from across the world about creative campaigns that are working, as well as grassroots activism. Take a look and send them a pitch over this way.

• MailOnline is looking for a freelance sports reporter to work on a shift basis.

• It’s been a bit thin on the ground this week, because of the obvious — you can see our full list of phrases to search here if you want to make sure you spot any final end-of-year call-outs as they come out.

• 🚨 Today is the deadline for the New Media Writing Prize Student Award. It’s for writing that’s been put together specifically for digital. You’ll win a year’s membership to Writers Online.

• 🚨 The BBC Young Reporter scheme’s call for stories also closes this Friday. Pass it along to any 11–18-year-olds you know who want to tell a story they’re passionate about on the BBC.

• 🚨 The deadline is January 1 for the TRT World Citizen Humanitarian Film Festival. There are prizes of up to US$5,000 for filmmakers that showcase issues from unique and creative perspectives.

• The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist’s Award 2023 is open for entries — you can submit a range of different types of articles and you will win a prize of up £1,500 and an NUJ student membership.

• 🎪 The incredible Chris Stokel-Walker is running a workshop all about how he freelances in early January. It’s only a fiver and we think it will be well worth it, considering what an original journalism machine he is.

• This is a very cool programme with the Dance Art Journal. They’re looking for emerging writers aged 18–30 who want to get into arts journalism. You’ll get eight weeks of support, as well as a paid £100 commission with them.

• 🚨 You have until December 30 to apply for a travel writing grant of up to US$7,500. It’s for writers who are working on long-form pieces or books about Spain or Latin America.

• There isn’t long left to apply for the Solutions Journalism Network’s LEDE Fellowship either. This is an amazing programme with up to US$5,000 and a host of professional development support. Here’s our old — and winning — application.

• 🚨 This really is your last chance to apply to our Refine Newsroom Fellowship. We will be informing all those selected by the end of the year. Join us for bespoke training sessions about how to report STEM stories and a free JR membership.

• Headlines Network is offering a series of free workshops for newsroom managers to help you understand how you can best support your colleagues and their mental health. Sign up by sending them an email.

• The Grierson DocLab 2023 is open for applications. It’s for those aged 18-25 who help you take your first steps into factual TV and documentary making.

• We’re giving away a load of books and some free memberships as part of our book club! More details on how to win are here.

• If you’re thinking of applying for the FT Graduate scheme, make sure to check out our guide here — it’s good prep for any kind of grad job prep tbh!

• Equally, if you’re using your time over the festive period to get an application for a master’s course submitted, we’ve also just published a guide to nailing that here.

Buy Our Magazine Or A Gift Membership This Christmas ☃️

We know it’s a tough time for everyone at the moment — but we’re incredibly grateful for any support you might be able to give us this festive season. Journo Resources is entirely reliant on donations from our members and the adverts we sell. December is particularly hard for us as job adverts dry up, but we still keep working! You can support us by buying a copy of our beautiful printed magazine, gifting a membership as a festive gift, or signing up for our membership scheme yourself.