Company openings

Why go through recruiters or listings when you can go right to the source? Many companies list their job openings on their own websites. Alternatively, send in CVs and samples in unsolicited. You never know when a job is going to open up; they may as well have you on file...

Magazine houses -- the big ones

Future Publishing - Home to ten+ magazines, including Total Film, and all the fancy websites that go with them. Located in London, Bath and Manchester. You can upload your resume for them to consider for future job openings, set up a job alert via email and check out their work experience and freelance details.

Emap - The makers of FHM and many other magazines. Big company. Usually have a few jobs up, in London and across the UK. Also check out their findamediajob.co.uk site for postings in Australia and work experience details.

Haymarket - Produce consumer, commerical and medical magazines... dozens and dozens of them. On all sorts of crazy topics from cars to gardens to nursing.

IPC - This firm boasts Horse & Hound and Wallpaper -- how's that for diverse? Just moved into shiny new offices, too.

National Magazines Company - NatMags has lots of listings and encourages people to apply on spec (ie, at random). You might know them from women's glossies like Good Housekeeping and Cosmo, but they publish a lot of different titles. Check out their work experience details here.

Dennis Publishing - Another big magazine publishing company which publishes gambling, computer and car titles, as well as a little mag called Maxim. Good place to work -- I should know.

BBC Worldwide - Magazine arm of BBC, with postings -- you guessed it -- worldwide. Also see the BBC's site and their work experience details.

Hachette Filipacchi - The makers of Elle, Red and Psychologies -- this is mecca for women's mags -- post their jobs here. They also have contact information for work experience on their site under "recruitment".

Centaur Media - Publishers of Marketing Week and New Media Age.

Incisive Media - This business/financial publisher is frequently on the lookout for reporters and subeditors.

Informa - Publishing house which specializes in academic and business publishing. They often have openings and do work experience placements.



Smaller Publishing Houses
They may not boast seven storey buildings and consumer glossies, but B2Bs, contractors and smaller publishing houses could be a great first job. Most of these places will advertise their jobs externally, but these links could be useful if you're sending out on-spec CVs or just wanting to see what else is out there.

Brooklands Publishing - Based in Surrey, they are the people behind A Place In The Sun and also do airline magazines.

H.Bauer - This magazine firm is the one responsible for, among others, Take A Break!

John Brown Publishing - They make things like Sky Magazine, commercial advertising type magazines which are very, very glossy. They also take students for work experience (check to see if they need anyone) and have a form for freelancers.

Mediamark - Small team of contract publishers, with a super cute website.

Redwood Publishing - They don't seem to list jobs, but do seem welcome to on-spec cvs and recent grads.

River Publishing - Makers of Sunday Times Travel magazine, among other shiny mags. Link leads to the front page of their flash site; click contacts and then vacancies from there.

The Economist Group - The people who put out the Economist.

Time Out - The London listings bible's job listings...

Cedar - They publish some very glossy mags, including BA inflight stuff, and accept CVs on-spec.

Redactive - Publish mostly contract magazines.

SPG Media - Publish B2Bs.

Newspapers

London24 - No jobs listed here, but there is a good list of local London newspapers, perfect for unsolicited attempts

JournalismUK - Has links -- but no jobs! -- to all major UK newspapers as well as many local and regional ones. Handy resource.

Daily Mail/General Trust - Many jobs for publications within the Daily Mail/GT empire.

Johnstons Press - Publisher of local newspapers and websites.

The Independent - The lefty newspaper puts its posts here.

The Art Newspaper - A newspaper. About art. Go figure.


Newswires

AFX - Business newswire, often looking for staff.

Bloomberg - Well-known business newswire, often looking for staff across Europe. If you speak German, they'll love you.

Press Association - Another well-known business news agency, based in Victoria.


Other/Multiformat

BBC - You pay for them (or maybe not...) so why not get something (else) back from them? Jobs in TV and radio, as well as their many publications. Can search for work experience and internships here, too.

Archant - They print magazines and some 85 community newspapers. Not all are in London, obviously. But they do have a few job listings...

Newsquest - UK publishers who print magazines, newspapers and specialist publications. Very diverse, so the jobs are diverse too.

MacMillian - Educational publishers who produce Nature magazine. Good for those with a science background. Usually a few job openings available.

Reed Business Information - If you want a job in financial journalism, here's a place to start. But lets face it, if you want a job in financial journalism, you'll have no trouble finding one... They also own New Scientist and some other journals...

Websters - They make encyclopedias and do a lot of web stuff. Seem to have ties with MSN. They also run a yearly wine-writing competition for young people.

Am I missing any? Let me know... jjobslondon[at]hotmail[dot]com. Last updated June 18/07.