Media Mentors

Richard can talk about creating colorful audio stories, engaging local communities, building relationships with sources and understanding journalism ethics.

Nelly can coach on broadcast journalism, investigative techniques, news product and project management, leadership, public speaking, and career development. She can also mentors journalists on solutions journalism and systems thinking, identifying systemic issues and root causes, and reporting on effective solutions through news/ feature reports, and product design

Data reporting, some data vis, editing, interviewing, leading a team, writing

I can coach on topics related to government oversight, police accountability and breaking news.

I can coach on how to build contacts in the community and how to find great, local stories.

Fish can help strategize on next career steps, data tools from Excel to Python/Pandas, political data including campaign finance, and being a woman in the newsroom.

I can mentor on anchoring, MMJ reporting and newsroom leadership.

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.

Natalie can coach on audience engagement, having difficult conversations, managing burnout, data analysis and digital strategy