Want to work with me? Friends Publishing Corporation, the parent corporation of Friends Journal, Quaker Speak, and Quaker.org, is looking for our first-ever staff writer 1. We’re looking for someone with journalistic chops who is also familiar with the circus that is the Religious Society of Friends.
Friends Journal will continue to have articles from every-day Friends sharing their ministry and their view of Quaker life. But with a staff writer we’ll be able to run more deeply reported and topical stories. We’ve been commissioning these already. For example, in 2019 Erik Hanson reported on how a Quaker school responded to long-ago accusations of sexual abuse. When the coronavirus lockdowns hit we commissioned a quick-turnaround story from Katie Breslin on how Quaker meetings were responding and another by Greg Woods on the then-novel concept of communing online. And for years we’ve conducted interviews of interesting Friends who are either too busy to write or perhaps not natural writers. With only two of us in editorial there have been so many times we have to say no to fabulous interview possibility. A staff writer will gives us the opportunity to include these voices more often.
Here’s an excerpt from the job description:
Friends Publishing Corporation, a nonprofit Quaker magazine and web publishing organization, seeks a staff writer to join our team. The Staff Writer will work remotely, though they may occasionally travel to FPC’s Philadelphia office or other locations as needed for all-staff activities or to cover stories. Travel is likely to be less than 2 weeks per year. This position reports to the Senior Editor.
You can check out the jobs page for more. If you know anyone who might qualify, please please let them know. This really is a remote-friendly position!
- As far as I know: our history goes back almost 200 years, so you’d need a dedicated archivist to determine whether anyone ever got regularly paid for writing dispatches.
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