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-The Daily Dot is hiring a part-time reporter to join its tech and politics section. “The role requires keeping abreast of the top tech and politics news of the day; the ideal candidate will pitch a specific beat to own and cover that stands out from the general day-to-day news.” Candidates should have some experience in online journalism, “but if you are looking to get your start, reach out.” The rate is $25 per hour, and a three-month review is built-in. “The ideal candidate for this position is interested in working morning or afternoon shifts on a Monday-Thursday schedule, approximately 20 hours a week.” 

- Longreads is hiring a features editor on a part-time contract (approx. 20 hours per week) to assign and edit in-depth features. Candidates should have at least five years of editing experience and a passion for narrative nonfiction. The rate is $4,000-$5,000 per month. “This will be a six-month contract, though there is potential to convert into a full-time staff role at the end of the contract period.” To apply, send a resume, cover letter, and three examples of features you’ve edited to [email protected] with “Features Editor” in the subject line. 

-The New York Times is hiring a climate writer to join the Climate Forward newsletter team. Candidates should have at least three years of experience covering climate change or a related beat and a portfolio that includes news, enterprise and analysis. The salary range is between $111,049.64 and $125,000.00, and the position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY. 

-Country & Town House's assistant editor, Theresa Dunthorne, is looking for pitches of "zeitgeisty ideas" for its UK & Ireland Hotels Guide 2025 package. “No reviews please! We want features that feel like insider views on the UK travel scene. Whatever that is in your eyes! Surprise us.” For more info, see last year's issue. The rate is £400 for around 1,000 words, and “this gets paid the calendar month after publication, which is May, so we're planning a really long lead—deadline for editorial will be late February.” Send pitches to [email protected]. 

Study Hall Subscriber Book Club: Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s Memoir “Come By Here”

By Daniel Spielberger

In the spring of 2020, footage of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old Black man, went viral. Earlier that year, Arbery was jogging through a neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia when three white men chased and killed him. Neesha Powell-Ingabire grew up in Brunswick. She attended a high school class with one of the Arbery’s killers. As a movement journalist and organizer, the horrifying national story felt distinctly personal. Irked by the mainstream media’s flat, grim portrayal of her hometown, Powell-Ingabire began writing Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast as her thesis at Georgia College & State University’s MFA program. 

The cross-genre memoir weaves together Powell-Ingabire’s reflections on her family’s history, reporting on the Gullah Geechee (a coastal Southern Black community which practices indigenous Western and Central African traditions) as well as Black farmers, and the region’s legacy of Black resistance. Although it’s a deeply personal read, throughout the memoir, Powell-Ingabire shares apprehension with being a voice of authority and emphasizes the need to center her sources.

“I identify as both an organizer and a journalist, and I don't see a contradiction in that even though in traditional journalism, you learn that you have to be objective at all times, you have to be neutral,” she tells Study Hall. 

Powell-Ingabire has written for outlets like Autostraddle, VICE, and Prism and works as the Director of Popular Education at Press On, a Southern Media Collective.

Study Hall spoke to Powell-Ingabire about her writing process, the value of oral history, and highlights from her reporting on Georgian coastal communities. 

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Can you tell me about the decision to mix memoir and in-the-field reporting? 

I went into my MFA program thinking that I wouldn't have to really get too personal, that I would write narrative nonfiction. I soon realized that that was not resonating with folks, and so that's how personal essays became so central to the book. But I intentionally wanted it to be a blend of genres. That’s how my Gemini mind works. So, you do have reporting and personal essays and prose poems and a lot of history and research and theory all combined into one.

In the book, you discuss how you went to the same school as Ahmaud Arbery. As a journalist who covered that story, what was it like to have such a personal connection to it?

Very surreal. You just never think that a major event is going to hit so close to home. It was just wild seeing Brunswick on the news, seeing the mugshot of this guy, Travis McMichael, who was in my Spanish class. I still am very personally invested in what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, and it made me even more committed to telling stories about coastal Georgia.

I don't want Brunswick to only be known as this racist place whereArbery was murdered. I want [people to know]  these rich stories of Black resistance,about Gullah Geechee culture too. 

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