Media Mentors

Matt can coach and mentor on being a positive and effecitve manager, editing and organizing investigative projects, public records, preventing burnout, data journalism, and maintaining work-life balance.

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.

Esther can coach on live news reporting,news anchoring, interviewing of guests, voice overs and voice editing. She can also coach on “piece to camera” for reports.

Irene can coach on news reporting for print and digital media, editing and writing for news and feature articles, and team management.

Lisa is a national-award winning investigative reporter.

Reese can coach on product thinking, product management, career growth, career hunting, working remotely, and work-life balance.

Jack can coach on reporting, editing, pagination, production and being a team player.

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!

Janie can chat about learning to code, building interactive charts, maps, and tools, and local news.