Get involved with The Journal
The Journal, Scotland's leading student newspaper, is now recruiting for the 2010/11 academic year, and we want you! Below is a list of roles we're currently looking to fill; scroll down to learn more about who we are and why you should join us.
Editorial vacancies
Executive
- Editor-in-chief
- Junior Editor (Student News)
- Junior Editor (Academic News)
- Junior Editor (Student Politics)
- Reporters
- Deputy Editor (Comment & Features)
- Junior Editor (Comment)
- Junior Editor (Interview/Profile)
- Writers
- Arts reviewers (music; theatre; art; comedy; fashion; food & drink; clubs)
- Deputy Editor (Sports)
- Junior Editors (Sports)
- Sports reporters
Production vacancies
- Layout designers
- Photographers
- Illustrators/editorial cartoonists
- Subeditors
- Web editor
- Web developer (Ruby on Rails)
- Office Manager
- Administrative Assistant
- Sales/advertising assistants
To apply for any of these roles, or for more information about what the positions entail, please email us at recruitment@journal-online.co.uk. For applications, please include a CV and any relevant samples of work. Applications including these documents will be given priority, but all applications are considered. Experience is appreciated, but only enthusiasm is essential.
The Journal is the only newspaper in the United Kingdom outside London to serve the student population of an entire city. We distribute to the campuses of:
- The University of Edinburgh
- Napier University
- Queen Margaret University
- Heriot-Watt University
- Edinburgh College of Art
- Telford College
- Stevenson College
Published every fortnight during term-time, The Journal is read by around 80,000 people an issue, in print and online, making us one of the largest publications of our kind in Scotland. We are also completely independent of any university of students' union; we work in partnership with the institutions we distribute to, but are funded entirely through advertising and so can claim complete editorial freedom.
Our goal is to provide the Edinburgh student community with the highest quality journalism possible, and to give our staff the best work experience they can get outside a mainstream commercial publication. Former members of The Journal's staff have been accepted into jobs and internships at:
- BBC News
- CNN
- ITN
- Channel 4 News
- The Guardian
- The Times/The Sunday Times
- The Financial Times
- The Herald
- The Sun
- The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
- The Edinburgh Evening News
- Times Higher Education
- Vogue
- The Skinny
- Fest
- The List
- What's On
- Three Weeks
- The Washington Post (USA)
- Ha'aretz (Israel)
- Business Day (South Africa)
- The Bulletin (Belgium)
- Beirut Daily Star (Lebanon)
Our alumni have also been accepted onto postgraduate journalism programmes at Napier University; City University, London; the University of Liverpool and Cardiff University. We've scooped over a dozen award nominations at industry, regional and national press awards. In 2009, we won Publication Design of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards, while Deputy Editor Simon Mundy picked up both Student Journalist of the Year and Best Features Writer at the Herald Student Press Awards. In 2010, The Journal won the award for Best Use of Multimedia at the Herald Student Press Awards.
Hundreds of people have taken this chance to develop their skills, open up new opportunities and serve their community with The Journal – so where will it take you?
