Jobs and Opps at Time Out, openDemocracy, Hyphen, Arts Emergency And Many, Many More 🌞
But we can't promise this newsletter will cool you down 🥵
I wasn’t here last week. Instead, my colleague Catharina did an excellent job of holding the fort. While the team worked away to keep Journo Resources running and supporting those who need it, I was more than 600 miles away on a train in the Scottish Highlands. The first time I saw last week’s newsletter was exactly the same time as you did – it popped into my inbox as I headed back from a gorgeous North sea swim. “The newsletter is out,” my partner remarked, in the most casual of ways.
In many ways, it is completely unremarkable. We have an amazing part-time team here at Journo Resources, who consistently make amazing things happen. There was never any doubt everything would keep running smoothly. But it still felt like an important marker in the work/life tussle. Currently, we send out one newsletter every week, bar Christmas. That’s 50 newsletters a year – and ever since their inception I’ve sent out every single one. Even when someone else writes the top introduction, it’s me collating and selecting jobs and opportunities. It’s become the one immovable pillar of my working week, in an almost comforting kind of way. Whatever else happens, there’s always the newsletter.
However, when I wrote my goals and dreams down at the start of this year, amongst my dreams for Journo Resources, I also wrote down something new. I wanted to take a two-week-holiday. Even when I was on staff, I never took a two-week-holiday. I was the kind of person who panics at the idea of not having holiday left to take, so it would just sit there unused until the last minute. But after the hellish two-and-a-half years we’ve had, I was determined to give it a go. I even chose a holiday that involved canoeing across Scotland, so I really couldn’t bring my laptop with me.
So, in a small way, the newsletter really was a marker of some real time off for me. I won’t pretend I didn’t look at any emails or messages when I was away, but by the end of my two weeks, I felt both creative and calm in a way I haven’t in a long time. I don’t, by any means, believe we should only see holiday in the frame of making us better at work – but I do think it’s time we starting prioritising it as much as any other career goal.
[EVENT] Pivoting Into Journalism Or Switching Your Beat
Perhaps you’re looking to break into journalism from a different industry. Maybe you want to break into a different area of journalism work. You might even be looking to diversify outside of journalism altogether. Join our next session with professional career coach and pivoter Winnie Tang, who will lead you through practical steps on how to get the career you want. As ever, you can either watch live or watch back.
There are some nice entry-level BBC jobs this week, all at Band B, which pays from £23,103pa depending on where are in the UK. First up, Asian Network News are in need of a journalism researcher to focus on social. The One Show is also looking for a researcher to develop story ideas, as is the documentary unit of Rip Off Britain.
🚨 Ignore the bug on the site (we will fix it we promise), these two Media Contacts roles actually close today. There’s one as a junior reporter looking at social and environmental impact that pays up to £30,000pa and another looking at international relations, technology and economics – again up to £30,000pa.
🚨 🏡 We know JR readers who’ve had great success applying and working at Alliance News, and their latest reporter role closes this week. They’re paying £26,000pa and are flexible on location.
Leeds+ have a couple of new gigs in video journalism. First up, they need a social videographer, which pays £23-28,000pa, as well as a social video journalist on the same salary. Both are great opps within digital-first news.
Trading Risk are looking for an “emerging reporter” to join the team and carve out their own scoops in the industry. It pays £25-29,000pa.
🏡 Farmers Guide is a free publication sent directly to 90,0000 farmers across the UK and they’re looking for a staff writer across print and digital. Pays £25,000pa and they’re happy to consider remote working.
Key Publishing are looking for an assistant editor to look after their historic and military titles, including Britain at War and Classic Land Rover. Don’t be put off by the title, it’s entry-level and pays £22,000pa.
The Rio Ferdinand Foundation are offering a summer internship for up to ten weeks. You’ll be paid £11.20ph for media pieces on grassroots issues. Found via our friends at MediaBeans.
The Hereford Times are looking for a news reporter with digital skills to join the team, and they’ll fund your NCTJ if needed. Pays £20-25,000pa.
Avalon are offering a three-month internship in non-scripted television, which includes documentaries. It pays £20-25,000pa.
Last one - HarperCollins have an editorial assistant gig which is an apprenticeship. Pays £21,260pa for the 15 month programme.
The wonderful people at Arts Emergency are looking for a marketing manager to help drive their mission of an equitable arts and culture sector. Pays £33-35,000pa.
Property Week are looking for a couple of gigs this week, in what always promises to be a fascinating beat. Firstly, they need a section editor to focus on legal and professional coverage (pays £30,000pa) as well as a news editor to drive all their news coverage (pays £40,000pa). Both hybrid working.
🚨 News Associates are looking for a journalism tutor to join their Manchester team, where you’ll guide the next generation of journalists. You need two years’ experience in the industry and it pays up to £28,000pa.
🚨 Another Manchester gig closes soon! The Manchester International Festival are looking for a press officer to work on the comms for the festival and they’re pretty flexible on where you work.
🏡 🌍 openDemocracy are still looking for a senior investigative editor and this is a remote role that can be done anywhere in the world. You’ll lead their global work on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights and it pays £55,000pa.
There’s another sub-editor role at DeHavilland, after they found someone great in this newsletter. Join them to work on political insight stories and you’ll be paid up to £30,000pa.
🏡 Hyphen. are a new start-up focused on issues around Muslim communities in the UK. They have three regional reporter roles going across Manchester/Liverpool, Leeds/Sheffield and Edinburgh/Glasgow, as well as a London reporter gig. All of them pay a very decent £30-45,000pa.
🏡 They’re also looking for a head of social media and audience development and an assistant editor to help lead the newsroom at Hyphen. These both pay up to £50,000pa.
BBC Sport are looking for a journalist to work on TV sports news, and maybe it’s because we won 8-0 at the Euros yesterday but I’m pumped for this gig. It’s Band C, so pays £25,670-50,313pa.
PodPod is a new podcast from the people at Haymarket, looking at the amazing people who create, star in, and promote podcasts. Yes, meta we know, but it sounds fascinating and the editor role pays over £50,000pa.
🚨🏡 Men’s Fitness are looking for a remote-working online writer and they’re paying £25,000pa.
Which? also have a couple of roles live for digital content producers. There’s one covering personal finance and travel which pays up to £47,000pa and one that looks after tech which pays up to £30,000pa.
Fancy moving to Australia to cover marketing, media and journalism? They’ll pay £30-50,000pa, cover your relocation, and sort you visa. Oh yeah, and they have some pretty swell beaches that way.
Another shout out for Arts Emergency who also want some freelance marketing help too, for about two to three days a week until October.
🏡 Time Out UK are looking for a news writer to pick up three to four days a week, focused on culture, travel, and city life outside London. Day rate of £120.
🚨 🏡 Last call for the gig with PinkNews as a digital sub-editor, where you’ll work remotely and be paid £175 a shift. It closes in two days’ time.
The Muse are once again looking for freelance pitches around the world of work and Stav Ziv has put together an incredibly detailed guide on what they’re looking for with examples. Pays US$300-600.
Metro.co.uk are looking for pitches for a new series on tech we can’t live without. Get in touch with Ross McCafferty via the link.
EssexLive and CambridgeshireLive are looking for freelance video journalists across both counties and the wider South East to work on social video.
Alyse Kalish is still looking for pitches on all kinds of topics around professionals and leaders over at Insider. Whether it’s Airbnb success stories or flight cancellations, head this way.
Some JR readers have had success with Input Magazine before – pitch them your ideas all around technology and what comes next.
Harriet Hall is now the features director at Cosmopolitan UK, across both print and digital. They’re specifically looking for timely ideas.
Aaron Rupar is still taking pitches for Public Notice, which covers politics and media in the US.
Joanna Freedman is looking for a freelance food writer based in Glasgow.
IndyVoices are looking for ‘vibe shift’ pitches about life, relationships, work, and our values. They’ve also got a great example from Charlotte Colombo.
Shared by the NUJ London Branch, Volteface are looking for pitches around drug policy developments around the world. They pay £100-200 on everything from news-based pieces to punchy opinion.
Ian Levy at fan-sided is looking for stories on the intersection of sport and climate change and he’s not afraid of the doom and gloom.
And, finally, Paste Magazine are looking for all pitches around food and drinks.
🎪 Another reminder to get your ticket to our event next week with Winnie Tang about how to build the journalism career you want. Join us for our discussion on all things job pivoting.
🎪 🆓 You can also get free tickets to our panel discussion on the future of journalism tomorrow in conjunction with ResponseSource. On the panel are amazing freelancers Michele Theil, Zeesha Saleem and our very own Hannah Bradfield.
🎪 And, one last event – there are still tickets to our A* panel about navigating an overwhelmingly white and middle-class industry. Join our discussion on equity and solutions!
🚨 Last chance to apply for the Ian Parry Scholarship, which closes on Friday. The scholarship awards US$3,500 to two winners to complete a photojournalism project, plus mentoring and equipment support.
The Film Fund from the Roundhouse is open again for its autumn round. Apply to get access to a £1,000 production budget for your film, as well as mentoring, access to equipment, and a wider support package.
WeAreTechWomen is now open for nominations to any women you know working in tech and smashing it. All tech counts – we’ve previously seen journos who work on digital, broadcast, and social up for it.
Applications are now open for the New Media Prize, which offers up to £1,000 in prizes for writing which has been made specifically for digital.
🚨 It’s the end of the week as a deadline for the Social Enterprise Awards, if you happen to work in a newsroom with social aims.
🚨 You only have two days left to apply for the MJ Bear Fellowship from the Online News Association. It’s open to journalists under 30 worldwide who are involved in or want to run a digital journalism project.
An opportunity here to be Nottingham Contemporary’s writer in residence. It’s a three-month placement to build your work and they offer £1,500 plus additional production support.
Lastly, The Bruno Reporting Fellowships From Coda Story are open again for 2022. It supports three-month reporting projects that will lead to a notable story, coming with a US$5,000 honorarium.
And, finally, if you can cope with a short read in this heat, we recommend Dolly Carter’s Day in the Life interview with Lewis Goodall, currently the policy editor for BBC Newsnight, and soon to join Global.