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.
