Journalism Jobs - December 15

On HoldtheFrontPage, the Press Association need a content coordinator. Centaur's Precision Marketing magazine needs a production editor and an experienced part-time subeditor.

A casting agency has advertised on the Careers Group for a copywriter for their website (unpaid).

GorkanaPR have updated their job listings. Sign in there to see these jobs or sign up at their other site (kind of confusing) to get the mailing list:

• CityAM is expanding it's team and needs reporters, a features writer, a subeditor, a web editor and more.
• Computer Weekly (based in Sutton) is also hiring several staff, including a subeditor and senior reporter.
• Good Holiday magazine needs a designer/artworker/journalist with production skills and is also looking for freelance stories about California.
• Haymarket's Revolution needs a senior reporter.
• A food website is looking for an editorial assistant.
• ArabianBusiness.com needs a senior journalist, junior journalist and a subeditor.
• And many B2Bs, business publications and newswires are also up there.

On the Guardian, Metro needs travel and environmental editors. They also need graphic artists and a designer.

Recruiter PFJ has advertised on that site for a reporter with a year of experience for a property B2B (£22-25k).

Emap's Media and Marketing Europe needs an editor.

The very nice people at Crain Communications have advertised on journalism.co.uk for a technical reporter. They will consider a freelancer for one or both of their chemical and polymer publications.

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So something called the Media Bloggers Association is going to try to bring professionalism to the fine art of blogging by making its members take an online course and prove they're valid journalists. But isn't the whole point of blogging that it's not professional? If you want, uh, professional journalism, shouldn't you buy a newspaper?