Media Mentors

Corey can coach on creating a newsletter to build an audience, freelance pitching, and industry navigation.

Sara can coach on project management, boosting productivity, giving/accepting feedback and collaboration.

Anahita has rich expertise in social media and audience engagement, offering invaluable guidance for emerging leaders in newsrooms, particularly young journalists of color. She has experience working across multiple teams in newsrooms and can help mentees navigate the complexities of cross-team collaboration. She excels in editing resumes and cover letters. Anahita specializes in framing stories for diverse platforms, ensuring that content resonates and engages effectively by thinking through audience preferences, platform algorithms, and visual impact.

Sandra is a veteran news producer in a top 5 market who trains and mentors new producers at her station.

Jack can coach on reporting, editing, pagination, production and being a team player.

Ibrahim can coach on human rights, climate change, disinformation and hate speech, and visual storytelling.

I have a diverse background helping newsrooms solve problems with technical solutions and product thinking. I’m not sure the type of person I could help just yet but I love helping others so I would be happy to help anyone you all consider a match for my background and experience.

Adam can mentor on all aspects of data related to journalism: web scraping, API work, data analysis, FOIA requests, writing with data, interactive design, and auto-updating graphics.

Mollie can coach on engagement, social strategy, audience building, trust, credibility, ethics. She can also provide guidance on being a first-time reporter, managing up, and avoiding burn out starting out in newsrooms.