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✍️ Journalism Jobs, Internships, Fellowships, Events, Awards and Salaries ✍️ — February 21

Today we have more than 500 new journalism jobs and internships; 80 journalism fellowships, events, webinars, workshops and awards; and more than 6,000 media salaries from across the industry.

✍️ Journalism Jobs, Internships, Fellowships, Events, Awards and Salaries ✍️ — February 21

Hello folks and welcome to a brand new Wednesday edition of Inside The Newsroom, home of the largest journalism jobs and internships board, and now the largest journalism calendar in the world! If you missed Friday’s announcement, I’ve consolidated the two newsletters I’ve done for about the past three years into a single newsletter that will now go out every Wednesday.

Instead of separating updates to the job board from the calendar, you’ll now receive everything in one place once per week. I’ll play around with the format slightly until we find the sweet spot, but for now you can find updates on everything that comes with a paid subscription below.

As a quick reminder, a paid subscription now includes:

  • 1,500+ active journalism jobs and internships from across the U.S., UK, Canada and Europe, updated weekly
  • 100+ journalism fellowships, conferences, events and webinars, workshops and trainings, and awards, updated weekly
  • 6,000+ media salaries from around the industry, updated monthly
  • Membership to our Candidate Board so recruiters contact you directly

Take advantage of our current offer of 50% off your first year with subscriptions starting from just $3/£2.50 per month or $24.50/£19.50 for the year.

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New Jobs and Internships

Last night I updated the job board with more than 500 new jobs and internships. Among the newsrooms include ABC News, the AP, Bauer Media, BBC News, Biography.com, Bloomberg, CBS News, Disney, Elle, ESPN, the Financial Times, Finixio, Hachette, Hearst, HYPEBEAST, Lexis Nexis, McClatchy, National Geographic, NBC News, Nexstar, NPR, Paramount, Reuters, Sky News, Scientific American, Telemundo, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, The Washington Post, TNT Sports, USA Today, Vogue, Vox Media, Yahoo Sports and literally hundreds more…

If your organization is hiring now or in the future, write to me at danielevitt32@gmail.com or reply to this email.

🚨 Premium Job Postings 🚨

🆕 City Cast

City Cast’s mission is to make podcasts and newsletters that connect people with the cities they love.

Executive Producer

  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Salary: $80,000-$100,000
  • Ideal Candidate: Experience editing and mixing audio quickly to a high level of technical proficiency; Experience managing an editorial team; Strong track record at coaching on-air talent, and cultivating chemistry between hosts and guests; Proven leadership ability, with a passion and knack for mentoring and cultivating talent.
  • Deadline: March 8

Host

  • Location: Austin, TX
  • Salary: $80,000-$105,000
  • Ideal Candidate: 5+ years experience in journalism or related field, in a public-facing role (host, performer, etc.); Some experience audio interviewing and editing; Voracious appetite for news and information about your community and the broader world; Strong written, verbal, and social communication skills.
  • Deadline: March 18

🆕 Voice Media Group

Voice Media Group is a media and technology company that specializes in serving advertisers, business owners and readers across the U.S.

News Editor

  • Location: Phoenix, AZ
  • Salary: $65,000-$75,000
  • Ideal Candidate: The Phoenix News Times is looking for a journalist with 5+ years' in a newsroom and 3+ years’ experience managing journalists and editing breaking, daily and enterprise stories. A working knowledge of — or eagerness to immerse yourself in — the character, people, politics and culture of Phoenix and the Valley.
  • Deadline: Rolling

Staff Writer

  • Location: Miami, FL
  • Salary: $45,000
  • Ideal Candidate: The Miami New Times is looking for a journalist with a solid culture, music and food background to cover developing stories through the week and find news of interest to an educated urban readership
  • Deadline: Rolling

ConsumerAffairs

ConsumerAffairs helps consumers make smart buying decisions in moments of need. They educate readers about their options, learn about their specific needs, and connect them directly to brands.

Data Reporter (contract)

  • Location: Remote, U.S.
  • Ideal Candidate: Experience analyzing data in spreadsheets, such as Google Sheets or Excel; Experience creating data visualizations in tools such as Datawrapper, Flourish or Tableau; Ability to turn numbers into cogent, well-written and engaging journalism. Strong writing skills are a must; Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; Strong ability to prioritize tasks, communicate about the scope of a project and meet deadlines.
  • Deadline: March 5

Investigative Reporter

  • Location: Remote, U.S.
  • Ideal Candidate: 3+ years of professional journalism experience reporting on consumer-focused issues, such as business, technology, health care, housing, finance, the automotive industry or product safety; Compelling writing that keeps readers engaged from start to finish; Skills interpreting spreadsheet data in programs such as Google Sheets and Excel; Experience navigating public records processes, especially FOIA, and working with government datasets.
  • Deadline: March 5

Vineyard Gazette

A leading newspaper for Martha's Vineyard, featuring local news, weather, opinion, tides, obituaries, real estate and job listings, tourist information.

General Assignment Reporter

  • Location: Martha’s Vineyard, MA
  • Ideal Candidate: Excellent writing and editing skills; Curious mind and a nose for news; Multimedia experience is a plus.
  • Deadline: March 1

International Symposium on Online Journalism Conference

The 25th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism, a premier global conference that brings together journalists, media executives and scholars to discuss the impact of the digital revolution on journalism, will be held online and in-person at the University of Texas at Austin, April 12-13. This year’s special anniversary conference will include speakers like the president and CEO of The New York Times and the founder and editor of Meduza, an independent Russian news site operating from Latvia. It also features reporters and editors in panels on artificial intelligence, visual investigations, election coverage and much more.

  • Type: Conference
  • By: Knight Center at UT Austin
  • Where/When: Online or Austin, TX/April 12-13, 2024
  • Cost: $30 (online) or $300 (in person) 
  • Registration

🆕 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship

The Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship helps journalists pursue ambitious, health-centered stories with reporting grants, five months of mentoring, and an all-expenses-paid week of intensive training at the USC campus in Los Angeles.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Grant: $2,000-$10,000
  • By: University of Southern California
  • Where/When: USC campus in Los Angeles/June 24-28, 2024
  • Application Deadline: April 10

Journalism Calendar

I delved into my stable of hundreds of listings to upload a grant total of 80 listings on the newly-located Journalism Calendar. Those listings are broken down as follows: 23 fellowships and grants (14 new), 38 events and webinars (27 new), and 19 awards (15 new).

If you’re a paid subscriber, you can find all of the listings on your job board link, on a separate tab at the bottom.

If your organization has an upcoming opportunity for the Calendar, write to me at danielevitt32@gmail.com or reply to this email.

Below I’ve included 20 or so listings for free. And that’s all I have for today. I’m going to get back to uploading more calendar listings and salaries, so until next time, have a great rest of your week and I’ll see you again at the same time and day next week. Adios! 👋☀️

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💵 Fellowships 💵

Science Health Environment Reporting Fellowships

The fellowships are designed to support early-career journalists who are pursuing — or have a strong interest in pursuing — careers in science, health or environmental reporting (or all three). Curriculum includes basic science, interpreting medical studies, analyzing data, explaining evidence-based decisions, understanding climate science and more. The program aspires to provide essential on-the-job training that might otherwise take years to accumulate.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • By: Association of Health Care Journalists
  • Where/When: Online/March 12-November
  • Deadline: February 23

Faber Publishing Open Day

On a day trip to Faber’s London offices, you’ll get to see behind the scenes at one of the world’s great independent publishing houses, home to authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Kae Tempest, Simon Armitage and Sally Rooney. You’ll find out how a book goes from manuscript draft to bookshop shelf, and learn about pathways into the publishing industry.

California Local News Fellowship

UCB is seeking early-career digital, print, video, audio, photo and multimedia journalists to work in local newsrooms across the state. Fellows earn a full-time salary and benefits from the University of California for two years and receive intensive mentoring, training, and support from experienced journalism leaders.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: Full-time salary
  • By: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
  • Deadline: February 25

SPJ Student Trustee Council

The Student Trustee Council is comprised of nine SPJ student members. These leaders serve to strengthen SPJ and provide feedback, insights and recommendations on improving the campus chapter and general student experience. Trustees are invited to share their challenges and best practices, and are asked for insights and opinions on a variety of SPJ services and resources.

Women in Politics Journalism Fellowship

Women legislators are at the forefront of efforts to find bipartisan solutions on issues ranging from health care, education and public safety to immigration, election security and LGBTQ rights. And yet, they face harassment and obstacles in campaigning, fundraising and serving in office not experienced by their male counterparts. To help add depth and crucial context to reporting, the NPF is holding a four-day training fellowship.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • By: National Press Foundation
  • Where/When: Washington, D.C./April 15-18
  • Deadline: February 26

ICFJ Knight Fellowships

This one-year fellowship program nurtures groundbreaking media projects that address challenges in the fellows’ home regions and helps share those innovations internationally. In 2024, the ICFJ Knight Fellows will include one or two U.S.-based fellows to focus on the intersection of international and U.S. information needs. 

2024 NABJ Ethel Payne Fellowship

This fellowship is bestowed to a worthy journalist. The fellowship provides an opportunity for an NABJ member to gain foreign correspondence experience and the necessary assistance to complete a project or singular report.

Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship

This fellowship seeks to promote the quality of responsible and discerning journalism exemplified by the work of Edward R. Murrow. One fellowship is awarded each year to a distinguished foreign correspondent or editor. The fellow spends ten months full time in residence at CFR’s HQ in New York, which enables the fellow to engage in sustained analysis and writing, expand his or her intellectual and professional horizons, and participate in CFR’s active program of meetings and events.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: $100,000
  • By: Council on Foreign Relations
  • Where: New York, NY
  • Deadline: March 1

🧠 Events and Training 🧠

Disability Reporting

WBFO disability reporter Emyle Watkins, Able News editor Emily Ladau and Newsday transportation reporter Alfonso Castillo will join the Press Club of Long Island for a discussion of disability reporting.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Press Club of Long Island
  • Where/When: Online/February 23
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Grierson DocLab

Grierson DocLab is a training programme that helps UK-based new entrants aged 18-25 thrive in the world of factual TV and documentary filmmaking. The initiative takes place over approximately one year and aims to equip 12 successful trainees with the skills, knowledge, confidence and connections to pursue a career in the UK factual TV industry.

Learn How to Create Successful, Topical Journalism Collaborations

In an increasingly interconnected world, collaborations in journalism are more important than ever. This webinar dives deep into the research conducted by the Reynolds Journalism Institute in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News to guide you on how to form meaningful, impactful collaborations.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Center for Cooperative Media
  • Where/When: Online/February 24
  • Cost: $5
  • Registration

2024 LGBTQ+ Student Conference

The 2024 NLGJA LGBTQ+ Student Conference is a place for students to connect with your peers, learn from industry professionals, score an internship, meet with recruiters from top news organizations and more.

  • Type: Conference
  • By: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists
  • Where: Online
  • Cost: Free (members) or $25 (non-members)
  • Deadline: February 24

Defending Student Press Freedom

Join for a discussion about the value of student journalists and their role in shaping civic culture in their schools and communities in an election year.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: National Coalition Against Censorship
  • Where/When: Online/February 25
  • Registration

🏆 Awards 🏆

One World Media Awards

These awards celebrate and recognise the best media coverage across a wide range of genres that focus on low- and middle-income countries across the global south; stories that break through stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people across cultures.

2024 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award

The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University invites applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, to be awarded in Spring 2024. The Institute expects the completed work to appear in an English-language publication of strong reputation.

Anne Keegan Award for Excellence in Writing About the Common Man

The Anne Keegan Award honors writers who tell stories of ordinary people in extraordinarily well-reported and well-written prose, muting their own voice to give one to the voiceless instead. Winners of this award are honored for exhibiting compassion, character and courage while telling stories that touch the human heart.

Black Hole Award

The Black Hole Award highlights the most heinous violations of the public's right to know. By exposing such abuses, SPJ’s Freedom of Information Committee seeks to educate the public about their rights and call attention to those who would interfere with openness and transparency.

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