During his university years, from 1992 till 1997, Muscat worked as a journalist with the Labour Party's media arm, and founded the Party's now defunct news portal "maltastar.com." He also worked as a journalist with the party's radio station, Super One Radio. He later took on a similar role at the Labour Party's Super One Television, chaired by Alfred Mifsud, becoming assistant head of news in 1996. Muscat wrote a regular column in "L-Orizzont", a Maltese-language newspaper published by the General Workers' Union, and its sister Sunday weekly "It-Torċa", and was a regular contributor to the independent newspaper The Times of Malta.