News Fellowship

Colorado Public Radio (CPR) is hiring for three Max Wycisk News Fellows.

Max Wycisk News Fellow:

Through practical experience and mentorship, this fellowship is designed to strengthen your storytelling skills and help you produce high-quality journalism across digital and audio formats. You will rotate across news teams, gaining experience in fast-paced daily reporting, creating longer-form audio stories, and exploring a beat of your choice. You’ll learn how to develop sources, conduct interviews, interpret complex information, and craft stories that inform and engage diverse audiences. By the end of the fellowship, you will have hands-on reporting experience, a portfolio of published work, and a clearer sense of how you might pursue a path in journalism.

Denverite News Fellow:

Through practical experience and mentorship, this fellowship is designed to immerse you in local, community-focused, audience-centered reporting while strengthening your skills in crafting clear and compelling journalism. You’ll learn to develop sources, conduct interviews, interpret complex information, and craft stories that inform and engage Denverites. You will gain experience in producing high-quality journalism across audio and digital formats. By the end of the fellowship, you will have hands-on local reporting experience, a portfolio of published work, and a clearer sense of how you might pursue a path in journalism.

Climate News Fellow:

Climate journalism is a rapidly growing field, characterized by a recent significant increase in specialized coverage, dedicated desks at major media outlets, such as NPR, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, and a surge in non-profit, collaborative reporting models. This fellowship is designed to immerse you in climate and environment reporting while strengthening your skills in crafting clear and compelling journalism. You’ll learn how to build a beat, develop sources, conduct interviews, interpret complex scientific research and policy, and present this information in ways that inform and engage a broad audience. You will gain newsroom experience and mentorship that hones your beat reporting skills and prepares you to produce strong journalism across audio and digital formats. By the end of the fellowship, you will have climate reporting experience, a portfolio of published work, and a stronger sense of whether you’d like to pursue climate and environment reporting.

These are not remote positions. These roles are expected to work in Denver upon starting. All fellowships with CPR are full-time, paid opportunities and run from September 2026 through August 2027.

About You:

You are looking to grow and develop your journalistic talents in the world of public radio. You may be a recent graduate, early-career journalist, or someone newer to journalism who is interested in pivoting into the field. You bring strong writing skills, an understanding of the core ethics and principles of journalism, and experience distilling information from a variety of sources. You're self-motivated, creative, and curious, with an interest in supporting journalism’s role in shaping democracy and educating communities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Less than 2 years of professional journalism experience.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of fair and accurate reporting.
• Strong writing skills including grammar, spelling, the ability to construct clear and concise sentences, with experience using research, data and interviews to produce fair and factual reporting.
• Experience with Google Suite or similar technology including word processing software, spreadsheets, email and messaging systems.
• Experience with using search engines to conduct research and gather information.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and departments.
• An understanding of how to use tools such as social media to share content.
• A commitment to telling stories that reflect diverse human experiences, build trust with sources, and highlight issues affecting underserved communities.
• A valid driver’s license and clean driving record is required as this role needs access to reliable transportation to respond with urgency to news events. Newsroom vehicles may sometimes be available for your use.

Education Equivalency:

• A degree is not necessary. The fellowship is designed to support recent graduates, early career journalists with less than 2 years of experience, or those looking to pivot into journalism. If you have 2+ years of professional journalism experience, we encourage you to apply to other full-time CPR positions.

Benefits:

Colorado Public Radio is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that reflects our culture of caring. Our employees have access to: 100 percent employer paid individual health, life, and disability coverage; an outstanding paid family medical leave policy plus paid holidays and a very generous sick, vacation, and personal time off plan; voluntary offerings such as dental and vision; flexible schedules; engagement and development opportunities; and a casual atmosphere.

Position Information:

Position Type: Full-Time, Temporary

Anticipated Start: September 8, 2026 to August 27, 2027

Hiring Range: $21.59 hourly (budgeted for 40 hours per week)

Application Requirements:

Click here to apply. Please upload a resume and respond to the application questions.

Incomplete Applications will not be considered.

Deadline: This position was posted on March 20th, 2026. We recommend you apply as soon as possible as the posting may close before April 9th if we have a strong candidate pool.

At Colorado Public Radio we are committed to cultivating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workplace that helps us represent the voices of the communities within Colorado. We highly encourage candidates with unique contributions such as ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, nation of origin, age, language, veteran status, color, religion, disability and sexual orientation to apply to our openings. CPR is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.