Laid Off and Looking
A podcast about Journalism…
what’s left of it

Early career journalists: RenJournalism's 9-month LaunchPad Fellowship offers funds & support for an ambitious in-depth reporting/storytelling project on a critical social justice issue. Grant: $5,000 Deadline: July 12 Apply: bit.ly/3Vam3qD

Exciting news! The Institute for Independent Journalists is hitting the road this summer, hosting freelance meet-ups at NAHJ, #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈, @AAJA, Indigenous Journalists Association, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, and Online News Association conventions! More details and RSVP: theiij.com/summer-events

The gap between freelancer rates and living wages must be reckoned with. Join Freelance Solidarity Project Freelance Solidarity Challenge to help create better data about freelancer pay and build pressure to increase freelance rates. freelancesolidarity.org/rates-challeng…

Planning for #NABJ2024 ? Check out the IIJ’s Freelance Business Workshop on July 31 to learn how to develop a sustainable independent journalism practice. Speakers include Katherine X Lewis 雪 怡 (she/her), Shernay Williams @Ms_Sah & Nikita Stewart of NYT Real Estate. theiij.com/2024-chicago-f…

Student journalists are playing an essential role in covering college encampments. Read Sanya Mansoor’s “What America’s Student Photojournalists Saw at the Campus Protests” for TIME: bit.ly/3QNeqUr and Sophie Culpepper in Nieman Lab: bit.ly/3WHGPim

🗺️🌴Join the IIJ this summer for freelance meet-ups and other exciting opportunities at NAHJ #NAHJ2024 #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 #NABJ24 Asian American Journalists Association est. 1981 #AAJA24 Indigenous Journalists Association Media Conference NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists conference and Online News Association conference. More details and RSVP: theiij.com/summer-events

Listen to the IIJ’s Katherine X Lewis 雪 怡 (she/her) on the Laid Off and Looking Podcast with Jenna Flanagan Domenic Camia, discussing the IIJ Layoff Census survey that aims to understand how layoffs have impacted journalists of color & the broader media landscape. bit.ly/3wrFnGt

Check out the Freelancers Union free step-by-step contract creator that allows you to customize your terms to protect your work and rights! freelancersunion.org/contract/

🌊Narratively and @Cnfonline are looking for stories on water in all its forms. Pitches due: May 28 Rate: $1000 Guidelines: narratively.com/p/896d80f0-226…

So honored and grateful to be part of this cohort of stellar journalists! Thank you Innovation Team @ RJI for the opportunity to create a #freelance start-up guide during this fellowship The Institute for Independent Journalists RJI Mizzou Journalism

Call for Pitches: We are seeking pitches for our new project, The Democracy Playbook! Read more about it here and below🔽 unbiasthenews.org/why-we-are-lau…

Proud to partner with The Institute for Independent Journalists to offer their members free article backups! Never worry about losing your work again. Sign up now using the code in the latest IIJ newsletter.

A $200 award entry fee is absolutely ridiculous!! With all the smaller newsrooms around the country struggling to make the payroll, you have to explain why you charge so much to judge an entry. And independent journos or journos are almost totally locked out. Whatever, man!

Journos! Looking for food and drink pitches with a summer angle for a supplement in the Guardian by APL. Think cocktail recipes and roundups, best alfresco places to eat etc. Please send over ideas to [email protected] (£120 for 600 words) #journojobs #journorequest