NEW DATE COMING SOON
For those who have already bought a ticket, please email Kate McMillan at wijuk@aol.com
This event is aimed at editors and staff writers (especially those with young children/who are contemplating working part-time) and freelancers.
Ever wondered what it was like to share a job in journalism? How does it even work? Is it better for your career than going part time and why should you consider it? How do you even get a job share, when so few are advertised? And if you do get one, how can you ensure it is successful and make it work? What is the best way to pitch job-sharing editors as a freelancer? How can editors/managers support women in job shares, - and what are the pros and cons?
Join our expert panel to get answers to all these questions and more, as they share their top tips for making a job share successful.
Aimed at women who are considering doing job shares -as well as editors who are interested in hiring job shares - you will get the inside track on how job sharing actually works in practice.
The event will cover:
- the pros and cons of job shares and why they may be better than a part-time role
- how to do a job share well
- what not to do - the easy mistakes
- how to manage a couple of job sharers well
- plus, importantly, how to persuade your employer that it is a great idea!
Recordings available for those who buy a ticket but are unable to attend the session.
The panellists are:
Kate Bussmann is Editor at Expedia Group, and before that was in a job share with Naomi Greenaway at The Telegraph. A journalist for over 25 years in London and New York, she has worked for international newspapers and magazines, and wrote a book, A Twitter Year. She worked at The Telegraph for a decade, half of which was as a job share after she adopted a child; this was the newspaper's first job share.
Louise Court is a former Editorial Director of Hearst UK and Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, who also serves on the committee of Women in Journalism and had managed and worked for job sharing editors in the past
Donna Ferguson is an award winning freelancer for The Guardian and Observer who is on the WiJ committee with Louise and runs regular masterclasses for WIJ and the NUJ (chair of the panel)
Naomi Greenaway is deputy editor of the Telegraph Magazine. Previously the deputy editor of Stella, the Telegraph's Sunday Magazine. She was the assistant editor of Glamour Magazine when she lived in South Africa and currently has a column in the Jewish Chronicle. Naomi is a mother of three and had a successful job-share with Kate Bussman for five years when she started at the Telegraph.
Charlotte Northedge is joint Head of Books for the Guardian. Charlotte has previously worked for a range of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Psychologies and Cosmopolitan. She has published two novels with HarperCollins, The House Guest and The People Before, which is being adapted into a film by Sea High Productions. She is in a job share with Liese Spencer at the Guardian.
Liese Spencer is joint Head of Books at the Guardian. Liese previously wrote and edited for a wide range of publications including the Independent, Mail on Sunday, Olive and Sight and Sound as well as working as the Guardian's Arts editor. She is in a job share with Charlotte Northedge.