Opportunities From: KGNU

Description:

Seeking someone to help out with KGNU headlines on Fridays! Help research, write, edit, and/or voice headlines for production. No prior experience is required. You will be trained by the news department.

Schedule:

1 hour each Thursday afternoon, to research and write headlines. After training, this can be done remotely or in person, at a time of day that works for you.

1.5 hours each Friday morning from 7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m., to add any breaking news, voice headlines on the Morning Magazine, and edit the audio for web and afternoon broadcast.

Total: 2-2.5 hrs/week

Fully remote option: 

If you are interested in researching/writing headlines, but not coming in to voice them over the air, that can be done. 

KGNU Studio Voices is an ongoing audio-recording role for volunteers who enjoy being behind the mic. This team helps us record underwriting spots, membership testimonials, event promos, and other short voice clips that keep KGNU sounding strong and community-powered. No editing, scripting, or technical work needed — we prep everything. If you’ve got the voice, we’ve got the time.

Seeking someone to help out with KGNU headlines on Mondays! Help research, write, edit, and/or voice headlines for production. No prior experience is required. You will be trained by the news department.

Schedule:

1 hour prior to Monday (Fri/Sat/Sun), to research and write headlines. After training, this can be done remotely or in person, at a time of day that works for you.

1.5 hours each Monday morning from 7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m., to add any breaking news, voice headlines on the Morning Magazine, and edit the audio for web and afternoon broadcast.

Total: 2-2.5 hrs/week

** Monday's Morning Magazine is currently being broadcast from the Denver studio, not Boulder. There are several options: A) you could come into the Denver studio on Monday mornings to voice headlines, B) you could just research/write, not voice, headlines, C) if you are experienced with the board, you could do headlines live from Boulder and hand off to the Morning Magazine host in Denver, or D) you could pre-record headlines over the weekend or before 7:30 a.m. Monday.

The News and Public Affairs Department is seeking volunteers.

Would you like to get into news reporting? Are you passionate about a particular beat, like education, politics, transit, local food, or environmental justice? The Morning Magazine is a great place for that.

Is long-format interviewing on a range of topics more in line with your interests? Ask about hosting opportunities for Hemispheres, Connections, Metro, or A Public Affair.

The News and Public Affairs Department tends to have greater training capacity for Boulder-area volunteers in the mornings and Denver-area volunteers in the afternoons. Most work requires an in-person element, but some tasks can be done at least partially remotely.

Volunteer opportunities can be roughly categorized into these opportunities, with options to be flexible or do more than one of these.

Headlines: Help research, write, edit, and/or voice headlines and related news copy for production. 1-2 hours per week, depending on whether you are just writing or voicing also.

Street reporter: Record audio for news stories. A great way to get started with no experience! Scheduling varies.

Story production: Write, record, edit, and/or pitch stories for news features and regular segments; assist with story leads and research. Scheduling varies.

Show collectives: Many of our public affairs programs are run by teams or "collectives" of volunteers. As part of a collective, you may be interviewing guests, hosting segments, operating studio equipment to ensure quality during live programming, editing/mixing episodes, and screening listener calls during call-in shows. Scheduling varies.

Digital content: Help publish news stories on kgnu.org, help maintain our social media, and help with internal digital needs. This is mostly an off-air role but you may be asked to record the occasional promo or similar. Minimum 1-2 hrs/week.

Editorial volunteer: Help us stay organized and keep things running smoothly behind the scenes. Administrative tasks plus story research— digging in behind a story lead to research background, context, key players, opponents and those compelling details and flourishes which make a good story a great one. Ideal schedule would be 2 hr shifts, 1-2 times per week, probably in the morning during the daily news.

Contact the News Department at newsdept@kgnu.org for details.

After you have attended a KGNU Volunteer Orientation, if you are interested in learning more about becoming a KGNU on-air DJ, you must attend a KGNU Virtual DJ Training. This introductory session will give you a closer look at KGNU’s music programming and ethos, and get you started on your first task towards becoming a DJ at KGNU. 

Participation in KGNU’s on-air music DJ training involves the following steps:

You must attend a KGNU Volunteer Orientation before you can participate in our virtual music DJ training program.

If you have any questions about this process, please email Joel Davis at rtc@kgnu.org.