Support ThreeSixty as a volunteer!
Thank you for your interest in supporting ThreeSixty’s youth storytellers as a volunteer.
We are recruiting for volunteers to support with the 2026 Capitol Reporting Workshop. If you cannot make the dates, you can Sign up as a General Interest volunteer to be notified of future opportunities.
We are seeking journalists with policy and/or Minnesota capitol reporting experience, particularly in the areas of public safety, education, and healthcare.
Volunteers will work directly with student reporting teams to strengthen their interviewing skills and help them conduct effective, ethical source interviews.
The session will begin with a structured panel interview, during which volunteers model strong questioning, follow-ups, and listening techniques. Volunteers will then observe and support students as they conduct interviews with their assigned sources.
We plan to invite most sources to the University of St. Thomas campus so interviews can take place on site. In some cases, interviews may occur in the field within the metro area. When field interviews are required, transportation will be provided for both students and volunteers as needed. Volunteers are not expected to conduct interviews themselves, but to coach students in real time by helping them clarify questions, identify strong follow-ups, and ensure interviews stay focused and respectful.
Volunteers will serve as story coaches, providing hands-on editorial guidance as students finalize their reporting projects.
This is the final working session of the workshop. By this point, students will have completed their reporting and will arrive with a working outline, selected quotes, and relevant background research.
Volunteers will help students shape their stories by focusing on structure, clarity, accuracy, and storytelling. This includes helping students refine leads and nut graphs, assess the strength and placement of quotes, identify gaps in reporting, and ensure the story reflects the youth perspective at the center of the reporting. Volunteers will also guide students as they complete their two final deliverables: an approximately 800-word written story and a multimedia social media story designed for publication.
Click here to sign up to volunteer and support this workshop.
Who can volunteer with ThreeSixty?
We are looking for volunteers with interest and experience in writing, storytelling, editing, journalism, multimedia, interviewing, and youth mentoring. Occasionally, we seek volunteers with more specific skills such as political reporting, creative writing, networking and career coaching, and opinion/column writing. We have had volunteers with backgrounds in print media, radio and audio, film, corporate communications, public relations, grant writing, technical writing, and more!
ThreeSixty works with youth from under-represented backgrounds whose communities’ stories have been absented from media. Successful volunteers will be able to work with students from different backgrounds and support them in developing their unique voice. Help us share the word – we are looking specifically to grow our volunteer base with those who are young/early career professionals, from under-represented backgrounds, and working in non-traditional roles within media and journalism.
Training
ThreeSixty volunteer shifts begin with a 30-minute training and mingling with coffee and snacks. We strongly encourage new and old volunteers to attend this half-hour session to meet fellow media professionals & journalists, learn more about ThreeSixty’s culture and learning goals, and receive support on working with our youth storytellers.
Email Associate Director of Operations & Systems Denise Huang with questions about volunteering.
