Calling all student journalists! Do you need help with your interviewing skills? Reporting strategies? Or are you just looking to learn more about working in the news industry?
Then sign up for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Greater Los Angeles chapter’s inaugural News Buddies virtual mentoring event, where mentors with experience in television, radio, print, digital news and public relations will answer questions you may have about breaking into the industry.
SPJ/LA’s Generation J Committee, which produces events to help support the next generation of journalists, is proud to have the following mentors for this event:
Anita Bennett, correspondent, Black News Channel
Tanya Christian, reporter, Consumer Reports, Ebony and Essence
Lisa Derderian, public information officer, City of Pasadena
Sid Garcia, reporter, ABC7
Vanessa Franko, digital director of entertainment and features for Southern California News Group
Matt Pearce, reporter, LA Times
Alex Razo, producer, KFI AM 640
Paige Turner, program coordinator, Pacific Neuroscience Institute
Eric Leonard, reporter, NBC4
WHAT: News Buddies: Mentoring Event
WHO: Society of Professional Journalist, Greater Los Angeles Chapter
WHEN: Thursday, December 2 at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom
CONTACT: Alexi Chidbachian, SPJ/LA Generation J chair, at alexichidbachian@yahoo.com
RSVP by noon on Dec. 1 to receive the Zoom link.