jobs & internships
Work with the Communications Director of the Sunrise Movement (🙌☀️👍🙏) to manage their press. Identify media opportunities, develop the narrative, field requests, and develop spokespeople.
Spectrum is hiring a spring intern with knowledge of neuro/genetics/behavior. You’ll report, write, and “perform any other duties or tasks as assigned or required.” That’s so vague, good luck!
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford is looking for a communications manager to do PR, develop strategy, and build relationships.
Produce online and radio stories as a climate reporter for KQED, based in San Francisco.
Shape what research gets featured as an editor for Physics magazine. They say they want someone with a Ph.D. in the physical sciences 🤷. Based in Ridge, NY. (BTW there’s also this non-media job opening as an associate editor at PRL.)
Write character-driven stories about biochem as a science writer for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
If your background is in science, this position driving academic publications forward for AllStripes might be a good fit. It sounds like the job is helping other people write academic papers about their research?
hu$tle tips
Jennifer Welsh’s great page of science journalism resources
Pitch Atlas Obscura (via The Professional Freelancer)
A giant Google Doc of science media outlets to pitch to
Photography pitches for BuzzFeed News (via Climate Media Jobs)