Monday 4/11 at Noon – “The New U: Landing A Media Job In Today’s Climate” – with Doug Mitchell

Doug Mitchell

Doug Mitchell is a nationally recognized trainer and coach for young people and early career professionals in multimedia while guiding them through life and work.

Mitchell is coming to visit PhIJI at Temple University next Monday, April 11, 2011 at noon, to present “The New U: Landing A Media Job In Today’s Climate.”

Please note the new time and location: This semester we will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Currently, Mitchell is the Project Manager for African-American Public Radio Stations at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and the Co- Project Director of “The New U” Entrepreneur Fellowship Program at UNITY: Journalists of Color. Mitchell is also the Career Coach at Knowledgewebb.net, a member of the Advisory Board at West Virginia University School of Journalism, Chairman at the National Association of Black Journalists Media Institute, an Advisory Board Member at The Featherstone Foundation, and Board Member at RTDNA: Radio Television Digital News Association.

Previously, Mitchell was the Senior Project Manager, Recruiter and Multimedia Trainer at PRI’s “Living On Earth,” and adjunct instructor at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York, Project Founder and Project Manager for “next generation radio” at NPR, a Fulbright Scholar-State Department-Knight Int’l Press Fellow at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and Newsmagazine and Field Producer at National Public Radio.

PhIJI events are free and open to the public.