2025 VOICES Editor Application
Ends on
VOICES is a student fellowship program that provides aspiring journalists with career-ready skills to succeed in the continually-evolving media landscape. At its core, the program’s mission is to help a diverse group of aspiring journalists understand how audiences engage with them, how communities view the work they produce and how they can understand the impact their work has. By nurturing relationships between students and professional volunteers, VOICES also gives students the opportunity to tap into mentors’ networks and begin their own.
We are looking for journalism professionals who are interested in mentoring our students in their news project over the course of the summer, and who are interested in growing as managers, training students, editing and helping students network. Editors will be expected to work with their student groups at least one to two hours every other weekend between late May and July.
The program this year will consist of remote summer-long training and project work that begins in May and culminates with the AAJA National Convention from July 30 to August 3 in Seattle.
As a VOICES editor, you will have the opportunity to:
- Guide student groups to pitch and produce a long-form story in one of five concentrations
- Learn mentorship, people management and project management skills
- Build lasting relationships not only with your students but also other AAJA professionals
- To attend the AAJA National Convention
The mediums represented this year will be:
- Text article
- Audio
- Broadcast TV news package / short documentary
- Photo essay
Our fellows from last year’s class have gone onto internships and jobs at news companies such as NBC News, The Washington Post, Southern California Public Radio and more. Former VOICES students and editors have become Pulitzer Prize winners, documentarians, public relations professionals, broadcast anchors and newsroom editors. Above all, VOICES is a community that lasts far beyond this one summer – it's a community that students will be a part of for a lifetime. To view past work by fellows, visit the VOICES website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please check here for information on eligibility, the program and other general questions.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 20, 11:59 p.m. PT