✍️ 350 New Journalism Jobs + Weekly Freelance Pitches, Fellowships and Events Listings — April 1, 2026
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Hello and welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, home to more journalism opportunities than any other newsletter in the world.
Hope everybody has had a good week so far and is ready to tuck into some new journalism opportunities. Before we do, I want to talk a little about something that I've experienced several times and will certainly face plenty more times in the future, and that is creative burnout.
There's a moment in all of our careers when our well runs dry. The stories that once excited us now feel like chores. The sources who once fascinated us now seem like obligations. The deadlines that once energized us now sap our energy away. In journalism, burnout is just common, it's practically inevitable. We talk about burnout as something to avoid, as a sign of weakness or failure, as the career equivalent of a flat tire on the highway to success. But what if we've got it wrong? What if burnout, properly understood, can actually be a creative catalyst?
The paradox of burnout is that it often arrives right when we need it most. We get stuck in ruts, telling the same stories in the same ways because they've worked before. We develop habits and shortcuts that make us efficient but also make us predictable. Part of journalism's appeal is having a job where you don't know what each day will yield. Burnout, as painful as it is, can be that driving force to force us to do something different.
What matters is not that we are burnt out — as we have mentioned, that is inevitable — but how we respond to it. Those who emerge from burnout stronger are those who treat it as experience building rather than as a referendum. They ask themselves what the exhaustion is trying to tell them, about their work habits, their story choices, their values, their definition of success. They use the downtime not just to recover but to re-imagine. They understand that creativity isn't about endless productivity but about cycles of engagement and disengagement, of intensity and rest, of breaking down and building back up. Sometimes the most creative thing we can do is admit we're running on empty and give ourselves permission to stop long enough to remember why we started in the first place.
No matter where you are in that cycle, we'll always be here with new opportunities that might just reignite your creative engine.
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Women in Journalism
AI course for journalists taught by journalists
Tickets are on sale for an online Advanced AI for Journalists course taught by reporters from newsrooms including the BBC, Reuters and The Economist.
Across five sessions, you'll cover using AI to work with documents and data, getting social media scripts to sound like you, a beginner’s guide to building simple journalism AI agents and some global inspiration to take back into your own newsroom.It's being run by Women in Journalism, a not-for-profit grassroots organisation, which is reflected in the low ticket price given the calibre of speakers. You don't have to be a member (or a woman, or even a journalist!) to sign up. Tickets are £60 for members and £100 for non-members but you can also buy sessions individually. All sessions are recorded and sent out afterwards if you can’t make it live. It starts on Wednesday lunchtimes from April 15.
Find out more here
Learn to Use ProPublica’s Database of Disclosures From Political Appointees
Level up your investigative toolkit with ProPublica. On April 8, the ProPublica team is hosting a special training session on their new “Trump Appointees” news app. This informational webinar will show you how to dig through financial disclosure records to find stories on debt, outside positions, and conflicts of interest within the executive branch. Learn the reporting process directly from the experts who built the database and find out how to use it in your own newsroom.
Sign up for the free webinar here
New England First Amendment Coalition
The New England First Amendment Coalition defends First Amendment freedoms and government transparency, and runs monthly online workshops aimed at journalists based across the U.S. and around the world.
- Type: Workshop
- When: April 10, 2026
- Location: Remote
- Eligibility: Journalists (and non-journalists) from around the world
- Registration Deadline: Rolling
Salinas Valley Now
- Location: Salinas, CA
- Type: Full-Time
- Salary: $60,000-$65,000
- Deadline: ASAP
- Location: Salinas, CA
- Type: Part-Time
- Salary: $45,000
- Deadline: ASAP
📰 Journalism Jobs
U.S. 🇺🇸
Gannett — Breaking News Reporter | Full-Time | Indianapolis, IN | Reporter| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
Forbes — Forbes Summer 2026 Forbes Live Intern | Internship | Jersey City, NJ | Producer| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
Boston Globe — Editorial Designer | Full-Time | Boston, MA | Design| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
The Philadelphia Inquirer — Politics Reporter, Campaigns & Elections | Full-Time | Philadelphia, PA | Reporter| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
American Public Media Group — Correspondent, Immigration and Law Enforcement | Full-Time | Los Angeles, CA | Audio| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
UK 🇬🇧
Financial Times — Investigations Correspondent | Full-Time | London, UK | Reporter| Deadline: Sunday April 12 2026 | Apply here
Future — SEO & GEO Analyst | Fixed-Term | Bath, UK | Strategy| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
BBC — Content Producer, BBC Audio North | Full-Time | Salford, UK | Audio| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
Cambridge University Press — Editorial Support Intern | Internship | Cambridge, MA | Editor| Deadline: Rolling | Apply here
The Watford Observer — Reporter | Full-Time | Watford, UK | Reporter| Deadline: April 07, 2026 | Apply here
🌳 Freelance Opportunities
If you're looking for freelance pitch calls, check out our latest Freelance Friday newsletter. And catch up with our previous newsletters dedicated to freelance journalism.
💰45 Publications That Pay At Least $500/£500 Per Freelance Piece
📅 Journalism Calendar
Fellowships, grants, events, and awards with upcoming deadlines. Become a paid subscriber for full access to our calendar.
🎓 Fellowships
➡️ Mental Health and Climate Change FellowshipThe Carter Center | Fellowship📍 Worldwide⏰ Deadline: April 3, 2026🔗 Apply here
➡️ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2026The Centre for Investigative Journalism | Grant📍 UK⏰ Deadline: April 6, 2026🔗 Apply here
➡️ Public Storytelling ApplicationReynolds Journalism Institute | Fellowship📍 U.S.⏰ Deadline: April 10, 2026🔗 Apply here
🧠 Events & Trainings
➡️ 🆕 Covering POL/ICENew England First Amendment Coalition | Webinar📍 Online • 🗓️ April 6, 2026 • Free⏰ Deadline: Rolling🔗 Register here
➡️ 🆕 “The Complicit Lens:” How Mainstream U.S. Media Covered GazaColumbia Journalism | Webinar📍 Online • 🗓️ April 7, 2026⏰ Deadline: Rolling🔗 Register here
➡️ Getting Started With DatawrapperDatawrapper | Webinar📍 Online • 🗓️ April 8, 2026 • Free⏰ Deadline: Rolling🔗 Register here
🏆 Awards
➡️ National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science CommunicationsNational Academies | Award📍 Worldwide • 💰 $20,000-$40,000⏰ Deadline: April 3, 2026🔗 Apply here
➡️ Mary Mulvihill Award 2026Mary Mulvihill Award | Award📍 Europe • 💰 €2,000⏰ Deadline: April 7, 2026🔗 Apply here
🔧 Journalism Tools of the Week
💼 Authory — Create a beautiful, self-updating portfolio (and back it all up)
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🔎 Google Pinpoint — Search and analyze document collections faster
📋 What it does: Pinpoint helps journalists search, organize, and analyze large document collections and discover patterns quickly.
📋 Why it matters for journalists: It reduces manual document review time and helps surface quotes, themes, and entities when you are working against deadline.
📋 Fast start: Open public collections to test search workflows, upload/source your own docs, and use keyword/entity search to pull relevant evidence quickly.
That's all for this week. We'll see you again on Friday!
