Media Mentors

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.

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Molly can coach on growing audiences across digital platforms, managing small teams, and how to make the most of working remotely
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.
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.
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Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
Rawan Damen can coach on finding a career in documentaries, investigations, planning an international collaboration and field work, in addition to facing challenges as a female journalist.
Ibrahim can coach on human rights, climate change, disinformation and hate speech, and visual storytelling.
Justin can coach on time management, managing burnout, navigating beat changes, building sources and advocating for yourself.
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.
Courtney can mentor on covering Congress and the federal government as well as how to look and apply for jobs.
I can coach on how to build contacts in the community and how to find great, local stories.

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Reilly Kneedler

Reilly Kneedler

Chief of Staff
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!