Stagiair Volkskrant

Amsterdam - At de Volkskrant, interns are welcome in all sub-editorials throughout the year. To journalism talent, we offer an enjoyable and educational period of at least three months.

During your internship, you will get plenty of opportunities to get hands-on in a pleasant working atmosphere. You will participate fully in a sub-editorial: you write articles, help with audiovisual productions, or perform other work within our journalistic organization.

This vacancy is intended for internship positions from March through May 2027. Submit your application for this period no later than Wednesday, December 16, 2026 . We will use the following weeks for the selection of interns. You can already apply for later internship periods, but we will only make decisions regarding the details of those positions at a later date.

Apply?
You can do so via the button on the website. In order to properly assess whether an internship at de Volkskrant suits you, we ask you to provide the following:

• Curriculum vitae

• Cover letter

• Three Dutch-language articles or productions by you. The articles or productions do not actually have to be published. Add these articles in full or via a URL at the bottom of your cover letter.

• Do not forget to mention which editorials you would like to work in and during which period.

We offer internships in the following sub-editorials:

• Domestic: you will write many news reports, features, interviews, or short analyses about news from the Netherlands.

• Political desk (in The Hague): you will write many news reports and debate reports about national politics.

• Foreign: you will write many news reports, interviews, profiles, or short analyses about news from other countries.

• Economy: you will write many news reports, features, interviews, or short analyses about economic news from home and abroad.

• Science: you will write many news reports, analyses, or interviews about news from the scientific world.

• Data, OSINT, and investigative journalism: you will write articles based on data or other public sources or work on long-term investigations.

• V (art, culture, and media): you will write news reports, analyses, interviews, or features about news from the cultural world at home and abroad.

• Sport: you will write news reports, analyses, interviews, or features about news from the sports world.

• Visual desk: you will assist and contribute ideas to the production of distinctive online stories, where text combines with photo, video, and other storytelling elements.

• Video, audio, and event: you will assist and contribute ideas to the production of our podcasts, videos, and to the organization of live events from de Volkskrant.

• Photo / image desk: you will assist and contribute ideas to the choice of photos for our news articles and other stories.

• Digital team: you will assist and contribute ideas to the distribution of our articles via the mobile app, website, newsletters, and push notifications.

• You are curious, have journalistic ambition, and an affinity for de Volkskrant.

• For the reporting desks: you have writing talent and experience.

• You are accustomed to working independently.

• You are available full-time for at least three months. A four-day work week is negotiable.

We have a preference for students from a higher professional education (HBO) program or a master's in journalism, but others are also very welcome to apply. De Volkskrant strives for a diverse newsroom: we explicitly invite interns with a bicultural background to gain work experience with us.

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