Community Reporter Fellow

Date Posted	June 05, 2026
Industry	Digital Media
Specialty	Not Specified
Required Education	Bachelor's Degree
Remote / Telecommute	Telecommute
Job Status	Intern
Salary	Unpaid

Description:

Community Reporter Fellows — Open Call

The Parlor Magazine is an independent feminist cultural and political publication covering the intersections of identity, power, land, and community — with contributors writing from Gaza, Sudan, Puerto Rico, Kashmir, Brazil, and beyond.

What is the Emerging Reporter Fellowship?

This is an ongoing, rolling fellowship — not a cohort with a fixed end date. Fellows join The Parlor's global network of community journalists and become part of a collaborative digital newsroom where stories are pitched, developed, and published together.

Fellows will:

• Pitch and develop their own stories with full editorial mentorship
• Participate in monthly writers room sessions where story ideas are discussed, timelines are set, and collaborations between writers, photographers, and multimedia contributors are built
• Learn how to develop a source list and conduct outreach
• Have the full experience of working in a real, living newsroom
• Be published in an internationally distributed feminist publication

This is not a passive learning experience. You will do real journalism, on stories that matter, in communities you already know and trust.

Who we're looking for:

• journalists, writers, and storytellers who are inside the communities they report on — proximity and trust matter as much as writing ability
• People with an interest in journalism that names harm, interrogates power, and centres community voices
• Alignment with anticolonial, intersectional feminist values
• Willingness to pitch independently and take editorial feedback seriously
• No formal journalism experience required — we will teach you

The stories we want:

• Land rights, displacement, and environmental justice
• Community resistance and organising — grassroots movements, coalitions, and alternatives being built outside mainstream visibility
• Colonialism as a present-tense reality — housing, borders, language, identity, and the structures that persist
• Women, queer, and marginalised voices in political struggle — as protagonists and organisers, not victims
• Alternative community wealth building — cooperatives, small businesses, and economic models that emerge from communities themselves
• Culture as survival — the politics of art, music, literature, and food in communities holding themselves together

A note on compensation:

The Emerging Reporter Fellowship is an unpaid internship. We are transparent about this because our politics demand it — and because we believe you deserve honesty about what you're signing up for.

What fellows receive in return is real:

• Extensive one-on-one editorial mentorship from the founding team
• Industry networking opportunities and introductions
• The institutional backing of The Parlor — a published, internationally distributed feminist publication — to bring your stories to life and give them a home
• A collaborative newsroom experience that most publications won't give you until years into your career
• Bylines in a publication whose values align with the communities you're reporting on

This is a founding relationship. The people who build The Parlor with us now will be first in line as paid opportunities open up. We are growing — and we are growing together.

This is an ongoing open call. There is no deadline.

Apply

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