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Opening up remote hiring has grown and improved the applicant pool — digiday.com

Back in the before times, I wanted to make a podcast series called 'FCKLDN’. I've got nothing against the capital, I just wanted to show there were magazine jobs in other parts of the UK. Good news, bad news time: COVID has made remote working a thing and my podcast idea largely irrelevant.

This piece from Digiday underlines the shift away from office-based hiring, spotlighting publishers like Quartz, Fortune and Axios taking on employees who are not based in their big-city headquarters. The move has has opened up the applicant pool to include more people of color and potential employees who would previously been disqualified simply by where they lived.

Quartz CEO Zach Seward told Digiday, “Nothing compared to how fast and strong an impact opening up our applicant pool to remote applicants had.” People of color now make up 42% of Quartz employees overall, up from 31% last year, and 50% of its editorial employees. "This improvement happened faster than I expected,” Seward said.

Winklevoss twins back space-business media company, Payload — www.axios.com

The Facebook-adjacent Winkelvoss brothers are putting some of their hard-earned capital into a space business startup. Payload's coverage is aimed at professionals in the US aerospace and defense industry, a market forecast to be worth $1.4 trillion by 2030. No prizes for guessing they're starting with a newsletter.

Teen Vogue's complicated political transformation — www.cjr.org

For media geeks - and I have to wonder why you're reading this newsletter if you're not a media geek - the story of Teen Vogue over the last couple of years has been fascinating. This deep-dive on CJR looks at the teen title's left-leaning reinvention at a time when America was lurching in the opposite direction.

Can a journalist conduct an interview over DM or email? — www.journoresources.org.uk

Some top tips from Journo Resources for journalists interviewing by email or DM. I love the pragmatism here... yes face-to-face is best and then the phone, but as journalism lecturer Kate Feld says in the piece, "Sometimes contact by social media is all you have".

New: Conversations Episode

NDC Mediagroep's Ard Boer and United Robots' Cecilia Campbell on how robot journalism is powering the modern newsroom — voices.media

In this episode Cecilia Campbell of United Robots helps mythbust some of the common fallacies about what robot journalism can – and can’t – do. To help illustrate what is possible we’re also joined by Ard Boer, Product Manager for Sport at NDC Mediagroep, who tells us how their sports team is making the most of robot journalism.

Want to write for Media Voices? — voices.media

GOOD NEWS! We're starting to pull together some budget to commission writers to help us build out the opinion and analysis section on the Media Voices website. We're looking to pay about £120 for 1,000 words so if you've got any brilliant media or publishing stories to tell, just reply to this email with your pitch.

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