{"id":4156,"date":"2018-08-23T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2018-08-25T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:19:08","slug":"connect-with-the-journalism-mentorship-collaborative-at-ona18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/2018\/08\/23\/connect-with-the-journalism-mentorship-collaborative-at-ona18\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect with the Journalism Mentorship Collaborative at ONA18"},"content":{"rendered":"
We often hear from our community that lack of diversity in newsrooms is one of the key issues stunting innovation in our industry. In February, ONA launched the Journalism Mentorship Collaborative<\/a>, an open network of more than 100 newsrooms who are deeply committed to diversifying their organizations through mentorship programs. <\/p>\n The Collaborative is a place for newsrooms to work together to develop a blueprint for effective mentorship programs as a means of recruiting, mentoring, and retaining diverse leaders. Since its launch, we\u2019ve hosted six webinars covering the basics of setting up a mentorship program \u2014 from getting leadership buy-in, to handling difficult conversations, to time management \u2014 and launched a private Slack community for industry leaders invested in mentorship to interact with their peers. We\u2019ve also distributed nearly $70,000 in micro-grants to 16 organizations to support the newsroom mentorship programs run by a cohort of Journalism Mentorship Collaborative fellows. In March, we hosted the fellows in St. Louis for a two-day meeting on best practices for mentorship programs.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re eager to hear how mentorship can help build a more diverse newsroom at your organization, come meet the members of the Collaborative at ONA18 and hear about the fellows\u2019 progress.<\/p>\n