Week of 6/23/2025

Greetings!

I’m sending out a short newsletter each week with freelance opportunities, job offerings and industry news.

Media classifieds🕵️‍♀️

• Inside Climate News is hiring a California environmental reporter (no salary listed)

• ProPublica is hiring a NYC-based investigative editor ($150-195k)

• The AP is hiring a medical reporter based in any U.S. city ($85-105k)

• The Examination is hiring a remote news editor ($75-100k); an interim managing editor ($145-175k); and data editor ($110-130k)

• Scholastic is hiring a NYC-based executive editor ($93-110k)

• The Washington Post is hiring a DC-based health care journalist to oversee a health newsletter ($137-289k)

• Politico is hiring a hybrid Sacramento-based California energy, environment and climate reporter ($85-115k)

• NPR is hiring a DC-based weekend supervising editor ($150-165k)

• Forbes is looking for a remote AI writer ($120-150k)

• TechCrunch is hiring a Bay Area-based AI editor ($120-150k)

• The Wall Street Journal is looking for an NYC or SF-based host for a new tech-focused podcast ($120-140k)

• Vox is hiring a DC or NYC-based shortform vertical video producer ($88-110k)

• Wirecutter at the NYT is hiring a writer focused on beauty and personal care ($87-105k)

Freelance pitch calls 💵

• The Roots of Progress Institute seeks feature pitches on “future applications of AI ($2/word)

• The Guardian’s Jenna Amatulli is looking for pitches for “trending news, health stories, crime tales, feel-good news, and more, with a strong news peg.” ($0.50/word, email jenna.amatulli@theguardian.com)

• Chemical & Engineering News is looking for policy freelancers to cover “significant US policy developments impacting chemists in the business, government, academic, and research arenas” (no rate given, email Larry Pearl: L_Pearl@acs.org)

• The Stanford Center on Longevity’s new magazine, SCL, seeks news, features and analysis pitches for upcoming issues themed around specific topics ($1.50/word, email SCLmagazine@stanford.edu for more information)

• Discover magazine is looking for pitches for reported 600-1,000-word stories that “focus on a larger body of research, examine trends in science and the world at large, offer historical context, or serve as helpful explainers” ($1/word for print or or $300/story for web pieces)

• The Atavist’s Seyward Darby is always looking for pitches of “deeply researched and carefully crafted” nonfiction longform stories (starting at $6,000 for 8,000-30,000 words, email seyward@atavist.com)

• Knee Deep is looking for a Bay Area-based, preferably Spanish speaking freelance community editor to “expand reporting, citizen storytelling, and climate science and health education in under-represented communities” ($1000-2000/month)

• The Food & Environmental Reporting Network (FERN) is looking for a freelance editorial assistant ($20/hr)

• Freelancer Wudan Yan is looking for an editorial assistant for her company, The Reporter ($25/hr)

  Opportunities & resources 💪

• Documented is offering a $10,000 grant for a reporter to “take on an ambitious project that tackles an issue that matters to New York City’s immigrant communities”

• The Cornell Lab or Ornithology seeks a one-year science journalism fellow (salary not listed)

Industry news 🗞

• Social media influencers now make more in ad revenue than traditional media

• The Global Investigative Journalism Network published tips for climate change journalists to stay mentally well

Stay in touch 💻

Did I miss anything? If you have questions, concerns, or want to share an opportunity with Tip Sheet subscribers, you can always reach me at rachelnuwer@gmail.com.

As always, the Freelance 101 doc is available here.