Media Mentors

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

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.

Becca can coach on centering audience needs in your news organization, developing news product strategies, operationalizing product management in a news organization, breaking down silos and managing change.

I can mentor folks looking to enter the world of graphics/data journalism. I also have experience navigating visa hassles as an international person in the newsroom.

Stephanie can provide insights into data journalism, local reporting and investigative projects. She can also give advice to students looking to secure internships or their first job.

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.

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.

Maureen can coach on running large projects, moving into management, working across multiple groups and establishing goals for your team.

I can mentor on how to balance investigative-level content with day-turn deadlines.