📝 Job Board Update — Feb. 8

423 new jobs taking our total up to more than 1,500!

Happy Monday folks! We had tiny amount of snow fall overnight here in London, which qualifies for a full-on blizzard, so please send help because we don’t know what to do… 🤷‍♂️

On a serious note, our Sophie Foggin wrote a truly excellent debrief of her recent trip to the Colombia-Panama border to document the story of 700 stranded migrants for VICE, and the journey they’ve taken so far in their eventual target of reaching the U.S. It really was a fantastic read of how to pitch, write and organize a breaking news freelance story.

Also be sure to check out January’s Data Corner, where we listed 23 data sources we used last month. Lastly, check out last week’s Inside The Middle East where we dissected the latest news from the region. Okay, enough talk, new jobs below!

Sophie Foggin @FogginSophie

While the Colombian border with Panama remains closed, migrants heading north across the Darien Gap in search of a brighter future must wait in makeshift camps on Necoclí beach. My latest for @VICEWorldNews

vice.comHundreds of Migrants Headed for the U.S. Are Stranded on a Beach in South AmericaThe border between Colombia and Panama remains closed, and people wanting to head north across the Darien Gap must wait in improvised camps.

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Job Corner ✍️

We added 423 new jobs to the board over the weekend, meaning we finally broke the 1,500 barrier, and it won’t be long before we reach the big 2,000! We also have 106 deadlines in the next 10 days, and we’ve made it slightly easier to filter jobs by city and state/country.

Newsrooms include the Associated Press, Applied XL, Bell Media, BuzzFeed, ESPN, the Financial Times, Moneysupermarket, Newsweek, NPR, Politico, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, the Washington Post and Toronto Star.

Due to a limit on the number of people that can be added to a Google Spreadsheet, I’ve made two versions listing exactly the same jobs, so no need to have access to both. If you’re a paying member, you’ll have access to one of the two below links/buttons… 👇

Preview of the 423 new jobs added to the board this weekend 👇

That’s all for today. See you on Wednesday for Inside The Middle East! 👋