✍️ Jobs Update ✍️ — October 24
Hundreds of multimedia openings plus Margaret Sullivan's new book and how to outsmart election disinformation
Morning folks, it’s that time again as we add another 700+ jobs to the board, and gather a host of the latest news and events in journalism. Before we do, check out Friday’s deadlines newsletter with hundreds of cutoffs coming up before the end of the month.
We’ll start off with the Behind Local News Conference 2022, which will take place in Birmingham, UK, on November 11. The conference is free to attend and will dig into many of the opportunities and challenges faced by editors, social media and content managers in newsrooms.
We’re just over two weeks away from the U.S. Midterm Elections. As with all elections, disinformation will once again play a major role and there are a host of guides and tipsheets to go with it. The best I’ve seen is ProPublica’s guide on How to Outsmart Election Disinformation, which includes a comprehensive database of tweets deleted by politicians.
Staying on the subject of misinformation, the Knight Foundation recently studied the activity of more than 10 million tweets from 700,000 Twitter accounts. Among their major findings, two stood out to me:
79% of the tweets that link to fake and conspiracy news are concentrated to just 24 outlets
83% of accounts that spread fake and conspiracy news during the 2016 election are still active heading into the 2022 Midterms
Another area of journalism in need of significant reform is how we treat local journalists, often known and called “fixers” to the Western journalism community. Whether it’s the current war in Ukraine or plethora of other major conflicts and events around the world, they are too often forgotten and looked down upon. Fortunately, our friends at GIJN published a great piece on the contextual history of the importance of local reporters and tips on hiring them for the critical work they do.
And we’ll end today with Margaret Sullivan’s new book: Newsroom Confidential. Sullivan rose up the newsroom ranks and spent a number of years at the New York Times as its now-abolished public editor, and then as the Washington Post’s media columnist. Her book is both a behind-the-scenes tell-all and critical look at where she and the industry went wrong and can improve. Among her many surmizations, “too many journalists — worried about their reputations for neutrality, under pressure from corporate bosses, and mired in their comfortable traditions — are still doing their jobs the same old way,” she writes. “It’s not good enough.” You can buy the book here.
That’s all for today. Check out our featured jobs below as well as a taster of the more than 700 new jobs we added to the board over the weekend, with this week’s theme being multimedia openings. See you again on Friday!
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Location: Atlanta, GA
Salary: $80,000 minimum
Requirements: 4+ years of experience (including internships). Applicants with advanced degrees with less years of experience are also eligible. Strong technical skills (especially in data visualization, JavaScript development, Node.js, data analysis using R) are preferred. Ability to find data, clean, analyze and sometimes visualize it.
Deadline: Rolling
Bloomberg Industry
Location: Arlington, VA
Requirements: Three published news clips to submit with your application. Full-time availability for 10 weeks, beginning June 2023. Plans to return to school in Fall 2023 as a senior or grad student.
Deadline: October 30, 2022
Monterey County Weekly
Location: Monterey, CA
Requirements: The ideal candidate will have a journalism track record demonstrating a focus on details and accuracy as well fluency across the digital spectrum. The position will be filled by a journalist with a true appetite for news who also treads comfortably among technologists and influencers. A degree in journalism, digital media or workplace equivalent is required (graduate degree a plus).
Deadline: Rolling
Location: Monterey, CA
Requirements: Passionate, innovative and tech savvy news nerd to join its team. Our daily e-newsletter is a growing part of our company and this is an exciting opportunity to lead the way in delivering print media in an increasingly digital world.
Deadline: Rolling
Texas Monthly
Location: Remote
Requirements: Familiarity with the authorities on language and editing, such as Chicago, AP, Bryan Garner, Merriam-Webster, and Words Into Type. A general affinity for or knowledge of the state of Texas and its varied affairs is preferred. Proofreading/editing ability in Spanish is a strong plus.
Deadline: November 28, 2022
Location: Texas
Requirements: 2–3 years of previous journalism experience. Understanding of Texas politics. Ability to write sharp, original analysis with precision and fairness. Proven track record for cultivating a diverse range of sources in government and/or politics.
Deadline: November 18, 2022
Location: Austin, TX
Requirements: Excellent writing skills with strong attention to detail. Experience using relevant social media platforms in a journalistic setting. Experience using Google Analytics, Parsely, or other analytics platforms.
Deadline: Rolling
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Project Syndicate
Location: Remote/Worldwide
Requirements: 4+ years of experience, strong knowledge and understanding of world affairs, economics and public policy
Deadline: Rolling
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