Sub-editors: how can I avoid killing them?

I'm not sure how to link to it, mark, but the subs_uk yahoogroup is a good source of work offers

cheers stevie, i will hunt that down on monday :)

i got my gig at heat via the group and now work there pretty much every month!

mark s, Dominic Wells - former Time Out editor - was looking for a London-based sub recently on Facebook. Caveat: I think the work would be on advertorials for The Times and Sunday Times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7RDqY1S1o

cheers WF :)

Caveat: I think the work would be on advertorials for The Times and Sunday Times.

doubtless £££s tho

the closest i've ever been to working on a title i was ideologically unsympathetic to was a fill-in week on r3d p3pper when it first started -- and it wasn't the politics, which i was broadly aboard with (otherwise wouldn't have bothered replying to the ad), but the in-office banter abt pop culture: no one present had a clue

also i did a few days at WOUND CARE magazine once, despite myself being WOUND? DON'T CARE

should apply at The Wire for maximum pathos

https://i.imgur.com/mPgfVXT.jpg

:D <3

Just before I moved from London to Glasgow I did a few fill-in shifts subbing The Sun's TV mag. This was at the News International compound in Wapping - have never worked anywhere else with such tight, oppressive security arrangements. It was of course interesting in all sorts of ways, and yeah, the rates were pretty good - the Murdoch shilling basically paid my relocation expenses.

So you're saying when the revolution comes it will be difficult to storm in there and smash up all their computers, which was my revolution plan

I'm sure the security guards will recognise their common revolutionary cause with you and assist with the smashing of the presses.

ok i have applied to join the uk subs and sent an email to dominic wells via his website, which is probably bad etiquette but i couldn't find the relevant facebook post

i will phone up the spectator later in the week perhaps

lol fabled foe of the subs' desk giles coren showing his worthless ass again

stevie i got no joy from the subs_uk yahoogroup -- can you tell if it's currently active from the inside?

(i applied for membership and the application failed 14 days later, i'm assuming bcz the person who makes the decisions didn't spot it -- i will re-apply anyway)

hey! am on hols this week but will reply properly when i get back home x

the blessed return of #theabsolutegrudge :D

(ps and v unrelated: nudging stevie? i never no response from them second time of enquiring either?)

Apologies, Mark - just fired off a message to the list to find out who the admin is

cheers :)

The UK company I work for may have some freelance subbing work going in October, working on a number of different contract-client magazines. It would be short notice when pages are available to work on, and a quick turnaround would be required. You would be subbing for facts, grammar and internal consistency, rather than wholesale rewriting etc (unless the text is particularly disastrous). There might also be client changes/amends to action.

You would need to have InDesign 2020 and might be required to make minor design tweaks to layouts; there could also be subbing work on e-newsletters too, so familiarity with MailChimp and Umbraco would be a plus. The company has offices in London and Glasgow; this would all be for the Glasgow office, although obviously you can be based anywhere in the UK.

The long-term goal is to increase our pool of subbing freelancers, who at present all get fairly frequent work from us. I don't know what daily rates will be on offer - I would guess around £150 a day would be the absolute max.

If anyone is interested, please send me an email, with a very brief resume of your previous subbing work, to Axx✧✧✧.littlefi✧✧✧@thinkpublish✧✧✧.c✧.u✧ (that's 'Andrew' at the start of my email address obv).

Thanks!

LOL ILX seems to automatically censor email addresses (very wise!)

so that's

Andrew.littlefield

at 'think publishing.co.uk'

Ach, I'm booked until the end of October, and then without assignment from thereon in, but if I can be of any use in the future...

Thanks stevie, please feel free to send me over your contact details etc. We're looking at a big deadline crunch in October, and I'm sure there will be similar mad rushes in the future.