Hi! I’m hiring a part-time Assistant Editor/Writer for Freelancing With Tim to work with me for 10-ish hours a month at $30/hour. It’ll be fun! I promise!
What is Freelancing With Tim, anyway?
FWT is a suite of educational resources for journalists to help them navigate the industry. We cover everything from the nitty-gritty of crafting a compelling story to high-level, actionable advice on building a sustainable career in journalism, all centered around a twice-weekly newsletter and biweekly(ish) skills workshops, with lots of other things sprinkled in throughout.
What you’ll be doing:
- Edit two newsletters per week
- Help brainstorm topics for stories (including weekly newsletters, multi-week themes, and large-scale projects), workshops, events, and anything else that seems cool
- Pitch and write occasional newsletters
- Assist with operations, including: growth and development planning and research; light fact-checking; building and maintaining a pub sked; tracking invoices and payments; working with sponsors; updating and maintaining past posts; and various other smaller things
You definitely have:
- Strong experience in and knowledge of the freelance journalism world
- Professional editing experience
- Familiarity with the ~newsletter landscape~
- No problem telling me I’m wrong or being dumb when I am
- Ability to work flexible hours (read: not crazy hours, flexible hours. Like the occasional weekend or evening here and there but for real nothing crazy I promise)
- A self-starter mentality. My editing philosophy has always been to equip people to shine then get out of the way, and that’s how I approach this
- A chill, low-stress, easy-going outlook on work and life!
Not mandatory but it would be super cool if you also have some of this stuff:
- Strong familiarity with AP style
- Experience with Substack and/or beehiiv
- Audience development and growth experience
- Experience working with sponsors
- A working knowledge of A.I. and have incorporated it into your own workflows and systems (I’m bad at this lol but would like to get better)
Odds and ends:
- I don’t care when or where you work! Aside from hard deadlines, it doesn’t matter when you’re on
- You should prob know your way around Google Docs/Sheets/Forms, Airtable, Substack/beehiiv, Eventbrite, Zoom, Slack, Stripe, and Raindrop, but those are way easy to learn so it doesn’t matter a ton if you’re unfamiliar
- I want you to bring ideas! I’m really looking for a collaborator and partner here, so I’d love someone who wants to dive in and contribute
- Most of what’s in this listing is flexible, but I’m also very invested in helping you do what you want to do, too!
To apply, email a résumé and brief (!) cover letter to [click apply] and put “Assistant Editor/Writer” in the subject line. Do not use LinkedIn Easy Apply. Applications close August 25 and will not be reviewed after. Please no LinkedIn DMs.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
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