SAVE THE DATE: SPJ/LA Student Mentoring Event Set for Dec. 2

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.

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