Media Mentors

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.

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.

Daniela can mentor journalists who are looking into getting into investigations and how do you navigate that as a POC.

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.

Michelle can mentor on working well with stakeholders across the business and newsroom (bridge role), developing high-performance teams, using product/design thinking frameworks in the newsroom, working on transformation to audience-first journalism, and engaging audiences using social media, newsletters and community.

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

Caitlin can coach on getting starting in journalism, using math and/or programming for journalism and reporting abroad.

Karina can coach on navigating internships, finding the big picture in local stories and fighting imposter syndrome.

Chris can chat about open records requests, brainstorm how to work through a reporting puzzle, or discuss his dog, Penelope.