a list of journalism job openings for Posties & anyone looking
Turns out that Twitter is still good for something...
The brutal layoffs at WaPo and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are terrible for about 230 billion reasons, and even supposing you’re not into quantifying the hundreds of people whose livelihoods are at stake, think of the loss of institutional knowledge and mentorship that will result from eliminating so many employees from a news company (and for many, possibly the industry itself).
It is absolutely a loss to journalism as a whole when an established outlet gets cut off at the knees; glory be to the ones who figure out how to Substack/Beehiiv/Patreon their way into independence, sure, but I think we all know that’s not how most bread-and-butter news gets made. The most reliable economic unit of news production can’t only be a buzzy party of one. We are very much losing the ancient texts — or at least the traditional, weird and creative ways that news has been gathered for decades and how that knowledge gets handed down in an otherwise totally unprofessionalized industry. Nothing made this loss more clear than the NYT story on Martin Weil, a journalist laid off at WaPo after 60 years, which offers an idea of how much more on-the-ground experience and ingenuity is stored up in one veteran’s pinky than the entire senior management experiences in a lifetime fiddling with org charts.
Anyway, I bookmarked all the tweets I saw on my timeline in the last few days about open positions in journalism right now and linked them below; the Washington Association of Black Journalists is also keeping a spreadsheet of open jobs in media here.
Silvia Killingsworth, editor-in-large at Bloomberg, is looking for freelance pitches for the Ideas & Culture section and Books coverage
DC-based NOTUS (“News of The United States”) has “a number of open jobs” including a defense reporter and health politics reporter
Zak Jason, editor of Business Insider’s magazine arm, is open to freelance pitches. (I’ve worked with Zak and highly recommend the experience; good rates!)
The nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union is hiring “for enterprising journalists and producers”
The Baltimore Banner is hiring for a digital producer, express reporter, sports reporter and a new deputy editor
Benjy Sarlin, the senior editor for politics at Vox, wants to hear from laid off WaPo staffers
Katherine Krueger is looking for pitches for the Voices section of The Intercept — “op-eds, reporting with a viewpoint, more.”
Axios is hiring, especially if you can cover at the local level in Phoenix, Cincinnati, Denver suburbs, “Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood”, and Mesa/Scottsdale
Bloomberg is hiring for some newsroom jobs, and Bryan Pietsch is offering to connect folks to the right person involved
The Observer’s Christa Terry (senior arts & culture editor) is commissioning freelance work and will tell you more about what pitches they’re looking for if you email
The Miami Herald is looking for an education reporter and affordability reporter
Deep South Today has newsroom job openings, “including several on our brand new regional investigative team formed in partnership with The New York Times and Big Local News”
The Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring for an investigative reporter and sports editor
City Cast DC is expanding and looking to hire editorial staff
Wired is hiring a few positions, including one on the science desk
PC Mag is looking for a senior writer on the software beat, 2 writers on the mobile beat, and an editor of shopping & deals. Mark Yarm is offering to DM for those interested
The Information wants a reporter “interested in telling killer stories about the intersection of tech and politics”
NewsHour and WETA are hiring – and are based in Arlington, VA
OffBeat Research is taking pitches for foreign correspondents: “priority is given to frontline reportage; our minimum rates are $700 per filed story and photos”
The Seattle Times is hiring for a data viz journalist and a photographer for their family-owned newsroom
Politico has openings for a tax policy editor, audio/visual producer, and video producer
Thank you for sharing these
Ty.