✍️ Journalism Jobs, Freelance Opps, Internships, Fellowships, Events, Awards and Salaries ✍️ — September 17, 2025
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
Hello and welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, journalism's job board.
Hope everybody is having a good week so far. Last week I formally introduced a partner of ours, Authory, whose founder, Eric Hauch, created a video just for us on how to create a journalism portfolio in 1 minute. Later this week, we’ll have the second segment of our series, in which Eric will tell us how we can automatically backup our portfolios so they never get lost in the ether.
For today, I want to talk about what happens after we build some momentum, and suddenly we're faced with a different kind of challenge: the temptation to do everything at once.
The journalism world is full of these moments. That fellowship application that closes tomorrow. The freelance pitch that could lead to bigger things. The networking event that might open doors. The training that could advance your career. The side project that could become your main income.
As powerful as momentum can be, it does eventually wear off and, if you’re like me, you finish the day with a bunch of half-done tasks, and a feeling of emptiness and failure. To this day, there are still times where I’m so eager to complete as much as I can in a single day, I race through tasks without giving them the attention they actually need.
So here’s the thing: momentum isn’t about doing everything — it’s about doing the right things, with enough care that they actually stick. Sometimes that means slowing down. Sometimes it means saying no. And sometimes it means letting one opportunity pass so you can give your best to another.
You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.
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🆕 USA Today – Sports Enterprise Reporter
📍 Remote, U.S.
🎯 Cover breaking sports news, conduct interviews, and produce compelling stories for digital and broadcast platforms.
💰 Competitive salary
🔜 Deadline: Rolling
🆕 BBC – Senior Journalist Team Manager
📍 London, UK
🎯 Lead editorial teams, manage content strategy, and oversee newsroom operations and staff development.
💰 Competitive salary
🔜 Deadline: September 22, 2025
🆕 Financial Times – Due Diligence Reporter And Producer
📍 New York, NY
🎯 Research, investigate, and report on news stories across various beats and platforms.
💰 Competitive salary
🔜 Deadline: Rolling
🆕 Gray Media – Motion Designer
📍 Atlanta, GA
🎯 Create animated graphics, visual effects, and motion design elements for broadcast and digital content.
💰 Competitive salary
🔜 Deadline: Rolling
🆕 IMG – Assistant Producer (Original & Branded Content), European Tour Productions
📍 London, UK
🎯 Support production teams, coordinate logistics, and assist with content creation and editing.
💰 Competitive salary
🔜 Deadline: Rolling
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🆕 Harvard Business Review – Pitches
📍 Remote | 🌲 Evergreen
🎯 Submit business analysis, management insights, and strategic thinking pieces to reach executives and business leaders worldwide.
💰 $2/word
🆕 Longreads – Pitches
📍 Remote | 🌲 Evergreen
🎯 Pitch long-form narrative journalism, personal essays, and in-depth features that tell compelling stories and explore complex topics.
💰 $350-$500/piece
🆕 The 51st – Pitches
📍 Remote | 🌲 Evergreen
🎯 Submit pitches for investigative journalism, political analysis, and stories that explore power, policy, and public interest issues.
💰 Competitive rates
🆕 Capital & Main – Pitches
📍 Remote | 🌲 Evergreen
🎯 Pitch stories on economic inequality, labor issues, environmental justice, and social movements that impact working people.
💰 Competitive rates
🆕 Grindr – Pitches
📍 Remote | 🌲 Evergreen
🎯 Submit pitches for LGBTQ+ focused content, community stories, and features that explore identity, culture, and social issues.
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📅 Journalism Calendar
Fellowships, grants, events, and awards with upcoming deadlines. Become a paid subscriber for full access to our calendar.
🎓 Fellowships & Grants
🆕 Early Career Journalism Mentoring Scheme 2026 – John Schofield Trust
📍 UK
🎯 Professional development program providing mentorship, guidance, and career support for early-career journalists.
🗓️ Deadline: Rolling
🆕 Cullman Center Fellowship – The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers*
📍 U.S.
🎯 Research fellowship providing access to New York Public Library resources for scholarly and creative projects.
💰 $90,000
🗓️ Deadline: September 26, 2025
🆕 News Creator Corps Training Fellowship – News Creator Corps
📍 Worldwide
🎯 Training fellowship focused on combating misinformation and developing content creation skills for digital media.
💰 $5,000
🗓️ Deadline: September 28, 2025
🧠 Events & Trainings
🆕 Reporting from the Intersection: When Identity and Beat Collide – The Institute for Independent Journalists
📍 Online
🎯 Webinar exploring how personal identity intersects with journalistic beats and coverage decisions.
💰 Free
🗓️ When: September 19, 2025
🆕 Book Talk: BBC Women Reporting the World – Frontline Club
📍 London
🎯 Book talk featuring BBC women journalists discussing their experiences reporting from around the world.
💰 £6
🗓️ When: September 22, 2025
🆕 Best Practices to Grow Donations – Society of Professional Journalists
📍 Online
🎯 Training session on best practices for growing reader donations and building sustainable journalism funding.
💰 Free
🗓️ When: September 25, 2025
🏆 Awards and Contests
🆕 Short Fiction Contest – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
📍 Worldwide
🎯 Creative writing contest focused on nuclear issues, climate change, and global security challenges.
💰 $500-$3,000
🗓️ Deadline: September 30, 2025
🆕 Innovative Storytelling Award – National Press Foundation
📍 U.S.
🎯 Award recognizing innovative approaches to journalism storytelling and narrative techniques.
💰 $5,000
🗓️ Deadline: September 30, 2025
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