Media Mentors

Aaricka can coach on local reporting, beat reporting, navigating being a woman of color in the newsroom, time management, managing burnout, early career, navigating grad school, job application/interviewing process, team projects.

I can coach on photo and video storytelling and editing, as well as managing and newsroom collaboration.

Michael can coach others who have aspirations of working in the radio / audio industry in a variety of roles, such as News / Sports Anchor, Producer, Writer, Web Reporter and editing audio.

Erika can chat about the news nerd community and career paths within it as well as about all types of nonprofit admin/leadership stuff including fundraising, budgeting, planning, and especially shared leadership.

Happy to connect on building meaningful news products/experiences, leading culture change in legacy newsrooms, workflow/automations, photojournalism, local reportingediting. Or anything else that’s applicable!

Caryl can advise on introductory journalism writing, business journalism, arts reporting, diversity-related reporting, basic data journalism, basic photojournalism, general editing, copy editing and layout design. I also have years of being an informal mentor to my younger peers at high school and college newspapers, so while I’m early in my post-grad career, I’m one to help.

I can coach on career planning, navigating the product-editorial relationship, negotiating

I can offer advice on investigations, political, environmental and GA reporting.

Abdulaziz can advise on career navigation, diversifying skills, managing burnout and stress; building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, building team culture, presenting to senior stakeholders, having difficult conversations with colleagues and management, leading during times of crisis; getting started in journalism, working at a news agency, newspaper, or magazine; reporting or editing; being an editor as your first job or anyone moving into their first management roles, particularly anyone keen to bring about innovation in their organisations; managing resources, story development, story structure and planning, editorial strategies, editing for style and grammar, utilising tools, and editing technical copy. He has extensive experience in energy journalism and can advise those who want to pivot into this beat.