Journalism Jobs - December 4

On JobsIn, a government council in North London needs a communications officer/editorial assistant (15/hour) for two months, starting... now! So apply quickly.

The BBC is looking for a broadcast assistant for their World Service Sports.

Recruiter PFJ has advertised on londoncareers.net for a part-time web editor (more editorial than techy) for a charity (£21- 34k), a reporter with a year of experience for a property B2B (£22-25k) and a subeditor on tech website (24-26k).

They've also advertised on TotalJobs for a content editor in Surrey (18-19k).

On Gorkana, new online woman's magazine twistedfairy.com is looking for voluntary contributions. Email Sarah Saunders at twistedfairymagazine@gmail.com for details. Why do all women's magazines have to use pink? Why?

Journalism.co.uk has an advert from Grand Designs for a subeditor, from FX Week for a senior reporter (£25-28k), and from Informa for an editor at a telcoms publication. If you're looking to move to sunny LA, Splash needs "news reporters."

And it's Monday -- the last Monday of my current job, thank the powers that be -- so here're a billion jobs from the Guardian jobsite...

VNU need a retail reporter (21k) and an editorial assistant (18k). BBC's Ariel needs an online editor.

Dennis' PC Pro is looking for a staff writer. A publisher needs a junior designer/production assistant (22k).

And this would be fun: Al Jazeera is looking for researchers, a news editor and deputy news editors.

NatMag's Harpers Bazaar is looking for a deputy chief subeditor. Financial newswire AFX needs markets reporters and subeditors.

Educational/medical publisher Remedica is looking for an editor, a commissioning editor and an office assistant -- having a biomed degree will help.

Granta -- "the magazine of new writing" -- needs a new editor. Noble House Media in Soho are looking for a subeditor/production assistant.

Estate Agent Foxtons needs a features/copywriter.

A children's magazine needs an editor (20k).

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And this is what the New Statesman's Peter Wilby thinks about job hunting at the big papers:

Fleet Street papers don't like advertising vacancies. Editors feel decent journalists will make themselves known without doing anything so mundane as filling out a job application. They have a mystical belief they can sniff out a star by casual encounters at parties or a brisk perusal of the smarter magazines. For senior posts, they pride themselves on "contacts" who tell them who's worth poaching from rival publications... this "informal" (as sociologists call it) mode of recruitment may help explain why growing numbers of journalists seem to come from a closed metropolitan circle.

Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure he's not looked for a job in oh, a million years, but it's true you don't see big papers/publications advertising all that often...