Kickstarter: Trainee Journalist

Join our team as a Kickstarter. We're offering 7 roles in all and on this page are details of joining us as one of 3 trainee journalists.

Kickstarter: Trainee Journalist

Work with our team to create exciting, engaging and informative content for young people aged 14-30

This role will source news content, provide analysis of current events, conduct interviews with experts and artists, and support the editorial direction of the website.

You will increase your knowledge of the creative world and develop experience with news writing, reviewing, interviewing and communications. 

We are looking for trainee journalists to cover politics, climate and youth issues, arts and the creative industry, or culture and entertainment – with opportunities to collaborate and explore areas of interest. An interest in arts education would be an advantage. 


You'll need to be curious, enthusiastic and analytical, with an interest in arts education, culture and media, or politics. You'll need to contact people for quotes, ask questions, and use your own initiative. You should be happy to work from home and proficient in using basic word processing, email, and uploading to a website. 

Experience with writing and interviewing would be an advantage but you can learn that on the job!

We welcome school-leavers and those are Arts Award experienced to apply.


These are the tasks you’re likely to do:

Politics, climate, and youth issues

  • Interview policy makers and activists
  • Write up politics and youth issue news stories
  • Talk to experts to help explain big news events
  • Appear on our podcasts to discuss the big stories
  • Cover and attend events where appropriate
  • Peer editing
  • Contribute to wider editorial agenda
  • Promote your work on social media

Arts and creative industry

  • Sourcing interviews with artists and industry workers 
  • Cover arts industry events and announcements
  • Source guest contributors to write engaging career path stories
  • Write or source relevant art-focused how-to guides
  • Peer editing
  • Contribute to wider editorial agenda
  • Promote your work on social media

Culture, entertainment, and society

  • Interview artists and creative people
  • Source and dissect the big culture and entertainment news
  • Produce engaging and informative content that explores issues of equality and diversity within society
  • Find and review short films and media 
  • Help Voice’s Media Sub-editor find new content when appropriate
  • Appear on our podcasts to discuss the big stories
  • Peer editing
  • Contribute to wider editorial agenda
  • Promote your work on social media

You will also peer-edit other people's work and actively contribute to our social media and marketing plans to extend the reach of our coverage.

 View details of our other roles, what we're looking for and how to apply

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