10 Journalism Portfolio Examples You Should Consult Before Creating Your Own Portfolio Website

What does an excellent journalism portfolio look like? What do you put in your online journalism portfolio (or even your online writing portfolio) that consistently attracts potential clients and highly paid work?

As always, the best people to ask are the experts.

In this piece, I'll list 10 journalism portfolio website examples showing how professionals do it. If you are thinking of creating or updating your professional online portfolio, I'll also suggest a portfolio website builder that might help you out.

Great journalism portfolio examples that lead the pack

Simon Denyer

Simon Denyer is a wildlife conservation consultant, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author. He was also a former bureau chief with The Washington Post and Reuters. Simon has written the book "Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India's Unruly Democracy."

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Jonathan O’Callaghan is a freelance space journalist in the UK that writes for The New York Times, The BBC, Scientific American, Quanta, New Scientist, WIRED, and multiple other publications. He covers diverse disciplines such as astronomy, astrophysics, commercial spaceflight, and space exploration..

Sheena Roetman

Sheena Roetman is a freelance journalist/writer, and the education director at the Native American Journalists Association. She has also worked as a membership director at the Atlanta Press Club and former news and investigations for Indian Country Today.

Tim Robson

Tim Robson has been an automotive journalist, photographer, and presenter since 1999. His work has appeared in publications like Wheels, MOTOR, Top Gear, GoAuto, CarsGuide, 4x4 Australia, and more.

His two-decade career has seen him test more than 1200 vehicles in more than a dozen countries, and more than 10 million people have watched video content that he has scripted, produced, and hosted. You can catch all that and more on his portfolio page.

Andrew Feinberg

Andrew Feinberg is a Washington, DC-based journalist who currently serves as the White House correspondent for The Independent. His writing has also appeared in publications like The Hill, Newsweek, Politico Magazine, Communications Daily, and Washington Business Journal.

Robin van Gammeren

Robin van Gammeren is a freelance journalist/writer/videographer. After finishing her Journalism at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, she worked at a local broadcaster for a while, until she realized that she wanted more freedom in her career. To achieve the same, she switched to freelancing.

Her work samples span a wide range of topics, but she is especially interested in nature, sustainability, social issues, and travel.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

Sanskrita Bharadwaj is an independent journalist, researcher, and copy editor based in Assam. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Slate, Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, Vice, Nikkei Asia, and several other international and Indian publications.

She has also previously worked as a journalist at Hindustan Times and as an assistant editor at the independent publishing house Aleph Book Company.

Amal AlTauqi

Amal AlTauqi is a creative and motivated journalist, editor, and publicist based in the East Midlands, United Kingdom.

With over 5 years of industry experience, she has worked for both traditional broadcasting publications like the BBC and The Guardian Newspaper as well as for digital media outlets like Link Up TV, GRM Daily, and PAUSE Magazine.

Her writing samples cover a wide range of topics, including music, fashion, and lifestyle as well as the ability to deliver traditional news reports.

Erin Blakemore

Erin Blakemore is a journalist and author from Boulder, Colorado. She writes about history, science, culture, and "the unexpected".

You can find her reporting in outlets like The Washington Post, NPR, National Geographic, TIME, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic.

Her debut book, The Heroine’s Bookshelf (Harper), has won a Colorado Book Award for nonfiction.

Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph is a multi-award-winning Scottish journalist. He is the news editor at Sky Sports News in London. He has previously worked at KICCA Media, MailOnline & Aberdeen Evening Express.

Why use Authory to create your journalism portfolio?

Now that you know what great journalism portfolios look like, let's look at a tool that helps you create such immaculate portfolio websites with minimal effort.

Enter Authory.

Authory doesn’t just give you the space to copy-paste links for writing portfolio sites. It literally does over half the work: finding all bylined content you’ve ever published, importing it automatically, saving it permanently (again, automatically), and enabling you to organize your pieces into different collections.

So, here's why you, dear journalist, should use Authory to showcase your writing abilities, writing style, and writing skills.

A self-updating portfolio (no need to keep adding new work manually)

Authory will AUTOMATICALLY import a copy of every bylined piece from every site into its own database.

These sites are called "sources." You add as many sources as you want, and every single bylined piece from every single source will be imported automatically.

You don't have to track down links to your published work (especially older pieces). As long as you remember the URL of the site where your work exists, Authory will collate all your content for you in one dashboard.

Authory can import content from behind most soft paywalls (as long as it is a bylined piece) and some hard paywalls. However, it cannot be used to import copies of articles, podcasts, and videos you haven’t created or featured in.

There isn’t any need to manually upload/copy-paste your content. That said, if you happen to have any non-bylined content, you can always do so manually in those cases.

Automated backups (never lose your content, ever)

All the content that Authory imports from different sources is saved permanently. You'll never have to worry about losing any of your published work. Even if the original website where it's published goes defunct for any reason, you'll always have a copy safely stored on Authory's server.

All backups are in the original format — text and/or media. No screenshots. This is super important because it lets you search through your content database, making it a valuable research tool.

Continued importing of past and future content (less effort for a 100% updated portfolio)

Once you enter a source, Authory won't just import your existing publications. Anything you publish on the same site (after you've fed its URL into Authory) in the future will also be imported automatically. In other words, Authory will import your past and future content.

Authory also sends email notifications for every new piece it imports, so you'll always know if something you submitted has been published.

Apart from these, you also get a slew of miscellaneous but necessary features:

• Ability to search through both your portfolio and your content database to find articles/audio/videos based on keywords. Prospective employers and hiring managers can use this to look for topics on your portfolio, and you can use it to find specific pieces within your Authory content bank.
• Ability to create a custom domain with a click.
• All imported content can be downloaded as high-res PDFs or exportable as HTML files — no lock-in period.
• Get a custom domain and personalize your online writing portfolio even further.
• Multiple, low-effort options for customization to make your portfolio visually appealing and easy to navigate.
• In-built analytics that provides real numbers on content performance (engagement, readership) across the web and popular social media sites every 30 days. You get to see how your readers/viewers are responding to your work.
• Allows creation of newsletters with a couple of clicks. After setup, Authory will automatically send your newly published content to subscribers.
• Widgets to display your personal portfolio on other sites, such as your personal website (if you have one).

As a freelance writer myself, I can vouch for the fact that Authory doesn't just give you an online portfolio. It actively makes your professional life easier for you. It's much easier to get freelance writing jobs

Of course, you should NOT take my word for it. The only opinions you can truly found on is your own.

Get started with Authory for free and see for yourself what works for you!