The mentors below have volunteered to offer free, half-hour one-on-one sessions for advice, guidance or general questions about navigating the media industry. Be sure to read our FAQs about the program ahead of booking a call.
Caroline can help with editing website portfolios, resumes, cover letters and navigating an internship/job search, particularly in the audience engagement space. Caroline also has expertise with working in nonprofit newsrooms and small audience teams.
I can coach on social media content production and creation, homepage curation and editing, digital and social audience development, and increasingly, product management.
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.
Richard can talk about creating colorful audio stories, engaging local communities, building relationships with sources and understanding journalism ethics.
Kaleah can coach on job hunting, networking, carving out a laeadership role when starting a new job and advocating for yourself as a black young woman in predominantly older and white newsrooms.
My background isn’t within journalism, it’s design/engineering – but I’d be happy to help with guidance around product and news platforms – Apple News in particular.
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
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Vishakha can coach on audio and video reporting, diversifying skills, navigating newsrooms (particularly as a non-citizen), and balancing creative side projects.