Jobs and Opps at The Telegraph, FT Weekend Magazine, Space.com, The Wire, and Many, Many More 🛰️

Plus, support we're offering to those affected by redundancy.

For those of us still logging into the hell site that is Twitter/X, it’s been a week for journalism. There are no words to describe the layoffs at Reach, but ‘staggering’ and ‘gutting’ might get close. Some 450 jobs are set to disappear — or to put it another way, 10 per cent of the whole workforce. One in ten. You only have to glance at your timeline to see the indiscriminate axe. Reporters. Editors. Apprenticeships. The women’s sport team. Entire sites. This is Reach’s third round of redundancy in 2023.

Of course, this is far from the only set of redundancies to shake the journalism industry this year. Saga. PinkNews. gal-dem. BBC Local Radio. VICE. The News Movement. Bustle. I could say a lot about the unique circumstances of each of these losses and what they mean for the wider journalism industry. But, to be honest, there’s more than enough of that over on Twitter without me. What’s more important to us is the people — at the sharp end of every redundancy figure is a journalist out of a job, a journalist who needs support.

We can’t make new journalism jobs at Journo Resources, but we do want to provide what support we can. Next week we’re running a one-off workshop for anyone, from any outlet, who’s been affected by redundancy. This is entirely free and will cover practical skills and tips about finding and applying for jobs, as well as exploring your options. We’ll also be providing journalists with a free JR membership to help them access further support and hope to follow up with specialist redundancy support and resources on our website. Please do sign up or share with others.

It’s been a shit week, but remember you’re not alone and this isn’t because of you. Together, we’ll work through this.

In solidarity — look after each other out there.

We Need To Sell 300 Magazines This Year To Fund Our Work

Currently, we’ve only sold four. If you can, please consider grabbing a copy — every penny goes towards our work to support journalists. That includes our fellowship, which gives paid work and training to people just starting out and our one-off redundancy support sessions. Plus, you’ll also get a beautiful, wire-bound, 100-page magazine. It’s packed with features, self-development exercises, and fun.

• 🚨 It’s your last chance to apply for the two entertainment journalist apprenticeship roles with The Sun. You’ll focus on music and culture of Black origin, supported by the MOBO Group. It pays £25,000pa.

• [AD] The Telegraph has opened up applications for their 2024 Editorial Graduate Programme, which pays above London Living Wage. It’s a 22-month scheme that will teach you core skills across various departments. Read our guide here.

• 🏡 Ubiquity Press is hiring a trainee publishing assistant. You’ll focus on the indexing and referencing of books and journals. Pay starts at £23,000pa and will be increased after your training finishes — usually after 12–24 months.

• FT Weekend Magazine is hiring an editorial intern for three months and it looks incredible. You’ll primarily work across fact-checking, social media, and learning aspects of the editing process. It pays the London Living Wage.

• Law Business Research has an opening for an editorial assistant. On the content side of things, you’ll carry out interviews with lawyers and write up reports, as well as sub-edit other’s work. It pays £25,300pa.

• Local TV (yes, that’s its name) has an opening for a video journalist to cover TalkTyne&Wear, TalkTeeside, and NewcastleWorld. The salary starts from £18,000pa and you’ll work as a self-shooting reporter, covering stories that matter.

• BBC Science Focus is advertising for a trends editor, who’ll be responsible for writing short features based on the social conversations of the day. We’ve listed it here as it has science journalism experience as ‘preferred’ only. It pays £25,000pa.

• We also think this job with ITV in the Channel Islands could be worth a shout, as it’s a production journalism role with achievable minimum criteria. It pays from £26,329pa and you’ll be based in gorgeous Jersey.

• It doesn’t say who this job is with, but Invoke Recruitment has a role open for a junior reporter. You’ll be paid £25–30,000pa and will focus on all things finance and tech.

• And, finally, Name PR is looking for a press assistant who has a strong interest in the music business. They’ll give you on-the-job training to help develop your writing and research skills. It pays £25,650pa.

• 🚨 Last chance to apply for the senior reporter role at Schools Week. The role is for someone who wants to work on agenda-setting investigative journalism in a huge sector. It pays £30–42,500pa with two days a week in the office.

• An interesting travel role here, with Travel Counsellors. They’re a travel agency and, as their content editor, you’ll write, curate, and edit a range of holiday content for their customers. It pays £25–30,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 It’s your last chance to apply for the research officer role at the Center for Countering Digital Hate. It looks like a fascinating role digging into social media and you’ll be paid £30–35,000pa.

• 🚨🏡 Also closing before next week is the health policy journalist gig at Full Fact. You’ll write a number of fact-checks every week, as well as features and other content. Depending on experience, you’ll be paid £26,700–38,535pa.

• Green Alliance, a charity and think tank, is in need of a communications officer to work across environmental policy and politics. It pays £34,663–38,017pa.

• 🚨 The team at Carbon Brief are looking for a multimedia producer to join them. You’ll focus on charts, maps, interactive data vis, and videos for articles. It pays £30,000pa and they’re open to applicants who don’t quite have all the skills yet.

• Newsquest is hiring a digital audience and content editor to work across the Western Telegraph, Tivyside Advertiser, and the South Wales Guardian. They say it’s a good first step into editing and management and pays £28,000pa.

• The Wire, an independent music magazine, is hiring a full-time commissioning editor to work across the website and magazine. It pays £28,941pa.

• Space.com is looking for a staff writer to write and curate stories for their homepage, upload video clips, and send their newsletter and push notifications. It pays £25–28,000pa.

• 🕑 Another reminder that the media subscriptions and partnerships manager role at Social Streets is closing soon. You’ll work to engage more people with their journalism through memberships and it pays £26,000pa FTE.

• And, finally, the IET is in need of a managing editor. You’ll oversee its portfolio of journals, leading on their strategic growth and impact, as well as working with the editors of each. It pays up to £39,000pa.

• The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, more snappily known as ECIU, is looking for a fact-checking programme lead. You’ll monitor and analyse media covering and prepare briefings for journalists. It pays £45–55,000pa.

• 🏡 Monzo is hiring a web content strategist to think creatively about how you can improve their website. You’ll lead content creation, oversee what gets published, and assess what is and isn’t working. It pays £72–85,000pa.

• Similar vibes here with TransferWise. This advert is for a staff content designer, who’ll help create intuitive content and experience for customers. You’ll need experience in content design and UX alongside journalism. It pays £95,000pa.

• MIT Technology Review has a new call for pitches for their next print edition, with a loose theme of ‘build’. They pay US$1-2 a word. Yes, really.

• Selamata, the magazine for Ethiopian Airlines is looking for stories on travel and culture that can be hooked to their March/April issue.

• This is a temporary content marketing manager role, lasting three months. They’re looking for someone with journalism experience and it pays up to £22ph.

• Contingent has a call for pitches out for people to explore all things historical and The X Files. They pay US$150 per piece and have really detailed guidelines.

• The Sun is looking for a casual TV and soap writer to work on a shift basis.

• Hearst, the people who make a tonne of magazines, are looking for a freelance social media manager to support the day-to-day running of their socials.

• Sofía Delgado is searching for freelancers to deliver fun, evergreen, and visual content. This is for shift work, so get in touch this way.

• Finally, for shifts, The Telegraph has a call for freelance production journalists.

• Marie Claire is looking for feature pitches for their upcoming money issue. It can be anything from scams to stocks to spending habits.

• Miranda Larba from Stylist is commissioning for features in the health, wellness and fitness space. They pay £180 a piece.

• Charlie Lee has a new role at Harper’s Magazine, looking after long-form reported pieces and essays. Send your ideas over.

• And, finally, The Grand Central Gazette has put their fee up to £125 a piece from December — so now is the time to pitch. If you have pitches relating to Leicester, take a look at their pitching guidelines here.

• 🎪🚨 We are about to kick off with a session on how to self-edit your work right now — which is why I’m trying in vain to get this out on time. It’s not too late to grab a ticket to watch back and get all the tips and soak up the tips though!

• 🎪 Other events coming up include a session on how to get your first paid-for byline, hosted by our very own trainee Hannah Bradfield, our free session on navigating redundancy, and a session breaking into film criticism.

• 👩🏽‍💻 Your regular reminder that we also run weekly co-working sessions if you’d like to come along and get things done with us. The next one is at 11am tomorrow!

• 🚨 The Happiful Poetry Prize closes next Wednesday. They’re looking for submissions on the theme of mental health and wellbeing and the winner will receive a prize of £100 and be published in the magazine.

• The Classical Association has teamed up with Bloomsbury Published to run a creative writing competition for girls, young women, and non-binary people aged 19 or under. Submit a piece of writing of up to 1,500 words inspired by the classical world and you could be published in an upcoming book of essays.

• Whitechapel Gallery is looking for a young writer in residence to create a short piece of work to be published on their website. It pays a fee of £500.

• Investigative journalists can apply for grants for stories focused on environmental crime in developing countries. It’s open worldwide and you receive NOK20,000, which works out to about £1,467.

• I think we’ve listed this one before — The United Nations Democracy Fund will fund up to US$200,000 to civil society organisations that will run a project to support and advance democracy. The deadline is the end of the month.

• 🚨 Just two days left to apply for the Earth Journalism Network Reporting Scholarships for 2024. Fellows reporting from low- or middle-income countries will receive a quarterly stipend of €6,000 to cover story production.

• The London Transport Museum is running a very swish Young Freelancers Programme, for people just starting out. You’ll work on creative projects for the museum, paid at £120 a day, and get training paid at £60 a day.

• Our friends at News Associates ran an excellent workshop last month about how to break into social media journalism and have kindly written up the key points, from getting over being on camera to engaging your audience.

• And, finally, a reminder that if you’d like something to really dig into while you’re curled up with a cuppa, you can pre-order our magazine here. It’s packed with features from our 2023/4 fellows. We’ve read them and they’re great.

We Need To Sell 300 Magazines This Year To Fund Our Work

Currently, we’ve only sold four. If you can, please consider grabbing a copy — every penny goes towards our work to support journalists. That includes our fellowship, which gives paid work and training to people just starting out and our one-off redundancy support sessions. Plus, you’ll also get a beautiful, wire-bound, 100-page magazine. It’s packed with features, self-development exercises, and fun.