Jobs and Opps at The Times, Channel 4, Big Potato Games, Notts TV, Scottish Opera, and Many, Many More 🥔
More than 50 opportunities to apply for this week.
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Hello, Hannah here this evening. How’s everyone doing? It feels like Spring has finally sprung here in Norwich. I wanted to write about Sunday, when I did my first half marathon — the Spring Blickling Half Marathon — a picturesque route around Norfolk’s National Trust Blickling Estate. When I signed up months ago, I failed to realise it was all on trail and involved several inclines that were very uncharacteristic of flat Norfolk. So, as scenic as it was, it was hard.
The pouring morning rain felt like a pathetic fallacy for a grim, sludgy run, and I was not feeling hopeful for my sub-two-hour aim. However, miraculously, the weather cleared up just in time for the run, and I managed to get around the course in 1:52, which I was super happy with. It’s currently touch and go with a few of my toenails, but I had a great time overall and would do it again.
On the drive home, I opened up Instagram to post my obligatory medal photo when I saw someone else on my feed had just run a marathon. Immediately, in my brain, that dimmed the brightness of my achievement that morning. Which is ridiculous, I know — but I think it can be a common thought process due to the sheer amount of social media content shown to us on a daily basis.
Yesterday, I was reading Ellen Scott’s brilliant
newsletter, where she spoke about the ‘I’m shit spiral’, and ways to deal with it. My mum quickly snapped me out of the ‘I’m shit’ spiral on Sunday, but as Ellen says, it is such an easy mindset to fall into, so it’s good to develop a toolkit to deal with it.Everything is relative. The person on my Instagram feed happened to be an influencer who had been gifted a marathon spot and had lots of free time to train. And good for them. They’ve worked hard for it. But it doesn’t mean they are any better or more worthy. So, resist the urge to self-compare. You are doing great. And please, spare a thought for my toenails.
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[AD] News UK is running a couple of training programmes with The Times and The Sunday Times. Starting in August, you’ll get hands-on training as well as work part-time on your NCTJ. There are roles for video producers, audience journalists, and sub-editors — all of them pay £25,000pa.
👑 Can you be the one to sort the Royal Family’s communication problems? Just want the real tea? They’re hiring for a comms assistant to answer media queries (yes, right now) and it pays £25,642.50pa. H/T MediaBeans.
Airbnb is running a communications internship, which will last at least six months. You’ll work across press materials, social media, and media queries. It pays £22–25,000pa.
Notts TV, the local TV station in Nottingham, is looking for a local democracy reporter. This is a BBC-funded role, which means your work will also be published there. You’ll focus on original political reporting and be paid £25–30,000pa and it’s also a great opp to get into broadcast.
This has been listed as a chief reporter role, but it only pays from £23,000pa and the requirements look pretty entry-level, so don’t be put off from applying. It’s with Tindle Newspapers in the lovely county of Devon.
Channel 4 has launched a whole bunch of apprenticeships this week, which all look great. The London-based ones pay £25,390pa and the ones in Glasgow and Leeds pay £23,170pa. You don’t need a degree or A Levels. Opps include digital production, daytime and feature commissioning, press, voice announcers (!!!), platform editors, digital marketing, marketing analytics, and picture editors.
Big Potato Games make some great games and I would recommend Obama Llama. They are also advertising for a social media and video production intern, which is a six-month role, paying the London Living Wage. Please get me a free game!
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This is a PR internship with Social (yes, that is the name of the media agency) that kicks off in July. It pays £21,840pa and you will write blog posts, send out press releases, and compile coverage reports for clients.
A reminder again for the science writer internship with the Royal Society of Chemistry. It pays up to £13.15 per hour, lasts for eight weeks, and focuses on writing for their magazine Chemistry World.
[AD] One more scheme this week! The Telegraph has opened up its annual apprenticeship again. It pays above London Living Wage and you’ll get hands-on training as well as your NCTJ qualification. Read our guide here.
This is a senior reporter role for a legal journalist, writing for an audience of lawyers across the globe. You’ll be paid £32,000pa to write news stories across four of their publications
INTEREST is a new digital publication from Moneyfacts Group, focussed on impartial news about interest rates. It publishes every six weeks and as their lead writer, you’ll produce a bunch of content for it. It pays about £30,000pa DOE.
BBC South East has an opening for a journalist based in Tunbridge Wells. You’ll immerse yourself in the communities across Kent, Sussex, and Surrey and they’ll pay £26, 975–42,080pa depending on your previous experiences.
🚨 [AD] Applications for the sub-editor role at The Sun also close this week. You’ll be paid £35–43,000pa and will be tasked with checking accuracy and grammar, as well as suggesting new angles.
[AD] Sadler’s Wells, the London theatre dedicated to dance, is hiring a media campaigns manager to help promote their shows and work on media campaigns. It pays £37,960pa.
This looks like a really fun one — Scottish Opera is hiring a fundraising manager to help them secure cash and develop a comprehensive strategy. It says in the ad this could be perfect for “a journalist who fancies a change”. It pays £31,145.90.
🇺🇸 [AD] This one looks dreamy. The Economist is advertising for an audience editor in New York. It pays US$70,000pa depending on experience and you’ll work across a range of social platforms.
Notts TV, the local TV station in Nottingham, is looking for a local democracy reporter. These are BBC-funded roles, which means your work will also be published there. You’ll focus on original political reporting and be paid £25–30,000pa and it’s also a great opp to get into broadcast.
The Southbank Centre is hiring a website assistant to focus on content for their events. It pays £27,352pa. Also in the arts world, FairArt is hiring a marketing and community lead to work on their social presence. It pays £25–30,000pa.
Mind, the mental health charity, is hiring a multimedia officer to focus on filming, editing, and producing video content and it’s a remote role. It pays £35,702–41,109pa. Again, H/T to MediaBeans.
Women&Home has two roles listed this week — a managing editor (£33–40,000pa) and an entertainment editor (£26–28,000pa).
And, finally, the Royal Society of Chemistry is hiring an assistant editor to commission and edit content for their Chemistry For All series, which supports teachers in areas of high socio-economic deprivation. It pays £28,409–31,567pa.
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We wrote a newsletter introduction about going to the dentist a few weeks ago, so it seems serendipitous that the British Dental Association is now looking for a content producer. You’ll be paid up to £44,235pa and please tell us all about all of your sparkling teeth content when you write it.
[AD] The TCM Group has an opening for a content and engagement manager. You’ll lead on content creation across a whole range of formats and will be paid £40,000pa, plus an expected £20,000pa profit-share bonus.
This social media manager job has just been listed and says it’s for somewhere in the retail space. It pays a very decent £45–50,000pa.
🏉 RugbyWorld is looking for an editor to lead their coverage across both print and digital and lead their team. It pays up to £47,000pa.
MediaContacts is advertising a senior reporter role, focused on private credit deals across Europe. It’s not clear who the role is with, but it pays £50–80,000pa.
And, finally, FutureWeek is hiring for a senior reporter to focus on the rise of AI (as if the world can focus on anything else). It pays £40,000pa.
The London School of Emerging Technology is hiring a freelance journalist to work across content creation and proofreading. It pays £12ph.
MailOnline is seeking a freelance social video producer to work across its podcast portfolio. It is also looking for a freelance social media assistant.
Lifestyle freelancers, Metro is looking for experienced digital journalists for shift work on its lifestyle desk in London.
Are mountains your thing? Annaliese Smith is looking for pitches on practical guides to adventuring in the mountains for Wired For Adventure. Pays £250 per guide.
Brit Dawson is going to be editing Cosmopolitan UK’s sex section until the end of April and is looking for pitches on anything related to sex, relationships, and dating. More info here. Pays £160+ per piece.
Non-profit newsroom The Markup is looking for pitches on how misinformation impacts immigrant communities. Pays $1/word based on estimated word count.
It looks like The Drift, the culture and politics magazine, which we mentioned in last week’s newsletter, accepts pitches on a rolling basis. It pays a healthy $500–1k for short stories and $2k for essays.
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Creative Access has teamed up with Penguin Random House for its 2024 mentoring programme. They’ll find you a mentor from the area of publishing you’re most interested in and the programme will last for six months.
🚨 It’s the last week to apply for our conference reporter scheme with the Student Publication Association. If you’re coming to the conference and want to be paid to report on it and get some professional bylines, send us your app!
🚨 🎪 Next week is our workshop with Jenny Bär about how to become a freelance copywriter. Grab a ticket to find out more about diversifying your income streams, getting set up, and finding work.
🎪 We also have an interview workshop with Hannah Shewan Stevens shortly after, to help you get the most out of each and every interview and a lifestyle journalism workshop with Meehika Barua.
🚨 Tomorrow is the deadline for the D&D New Blood Awards, specifically for those who want to break into advertising and marketing. Entry is free if you complete a short survey — so we’d recommend doing that first.
🚨 There are also only a few days left to enter the WeAreTheCity Rising Star Awards. There are loads of categories applicable to journalists — we’d love to see some more journo representation this year!
🚨 The 2024 Student Social Mobility Awards close on Friday, with a variety of categories open for entries. Travel and accommodation to the awards, if you’re selected, are covered.
🚨 There’s only a week left to apply for the Paul Foot Award 2024, organised by Private Eye. It’s for investigative and campaigning journalism and you really can be from any outlet — they’re looking at the content, not the title you work for.
The Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme is back open from The Centre for Investigative Journalism. You’ll get five months of training and mentoring to further your career in investigative journalism.
And, finally, apps are also now open for the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism. There are awards for local reporters, freelancers, and fixers, all with prizes of US$5,000 in each category.
Our ‘How To Report’ series returns with a wonderful piece from Hannah looking at best practices when referring to age. As someone who had it drummed into me to ask everyone their age when reporting, I found this fascinating.
We’ve said this like three times now, but The Guardian Foundation Scott Trust Bursary closes soon! We’ve written a whole guide to it right here, so take a look through to give yourself the best chance of snagging a place.