Experienced Journalists to Take Emerging Reporters and Editors Under Their Wings
Los Angeles, CA – December 2, 2024 – To formalize and extend its mission of serving emerging writers, Next Echo Foundation announces the official launch of a mentoring program offered through its two publications, DCReport and Cultural Daily.
The program formalizes and extends Next Echo Foundation’s long history of providing a platform for new voices and new perspectives, often from communities not well-served by more mainstream publications.
“Through intentional mentor-mentee relationship building, we seek to support work that shapes our culture and society moving forward,” said Adam Leipzig, Executive Director of the Foundation. “We believe there’s a need to foster work that reflects society, so we better understand ourselves more clearly and design powerful, positive narratives for our collective futures.”
The program will provide a platform for excellent, diverse, emerging writers and poets on Cultural Daily and excellent, diverse, emerging journalists on DCReport. It also provides an opportunity for experienced professionals to give back to a profession and skill that is in need of help and preservation now more than ever before.
“This type of opportunity for young journalists is sorely lacking in today’s mainstream media landscape,” said Tod Hardin, Editor-in-Chief of DCReport. “It’s important to set the building blocks for a free press, by ensuring that our next generation of writers and editors is not only prepared for the task, but also passionate about telling fact-based stories that inform, inspire and incite action.”
Hardin notes that the Next Echo Foundation Mentor/Mentee program builds on the strong legacy of DCReport’s co-founders, David Cay Johnston and David Crook, both firm believers in the need to nurture the talent of young writers. However, it only works if seasoned pros are willing to give back. If you are published and experienced, and at a place in your career where you would be interested in becoming a Next Echo Mentor for investigative reporters, journalists, or creative writers or poets, please contact the program at [email protected]
About Next Echo Foundation
The purpose of Next Echo Foundation is to nurture and empower creative and socially-engaged people and their work in order to foster a culture that is vibrant, resilient, sustaining, inclusive, diverse, self-aware, and advances toward social justice. Next Echo supports creative work and journalism that shapes our culture moving forward, and work that reflects society, so we may understand ourselves more clearly. Next Echo Foundation publishes Cultural Daily and DCReport. Through this work, Next Echo Foundation also seeks to inform creative people, journalists, and their readers about opportunities, services, and products that will advance their careers and enrich their lives.
About DCReport
DCReport is a not-for-profit online publication that provides reporting, information, and perspective on the policies, politics, and events that affect our everyday lives and futures. We do so to protect your rights as citizens, consumers, workers, investors and voters. They are participatory civic media in action, propelled by the belief that we must democratize the stories and the storytellers for our national narrative. Thus, a large focus of our coverage has shifted to feature more content about issues relative to marginalized communities, and written or produced by members of those communities. Those are the voices often never heard, despite being the voices that we all most need to hear from.
About Cultural Daily
Cultural Daily is a free platform for independent voices, often overlooked and suppressed. This is participatory civic media with new and necessary perspectives shared every day.
Contact:
Tod Hardin
Editor-in-Chief, DCReport
[email protected]
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