Military Veterans in Journalism is a nonprofit professional association dedicated to creating
a community for veterans who work in or aspire to work in the news media. We provide training resources to this community to improve their work and advocate for newsrooms to improve their staff diversity through hiring and promoting veterans.
MVJ’s mentorship program recruits top reporters from around the country to volunteer as mentors to a diverse group of military veterans beginning careers in journalism. Each veteran receives three handpicked mentors over six months, selected based on their specific goals and level of experience. The generous support of the Golden Globe Foundation in the form of a $50,000 grant over five years has formalized, professionalized and automated our mentorship program so veterans can rely on it consistently. Our protégés now achieve greater than 70 percent of their goals on average from their mentorship sessions. Some have started grad school, others have landed career-making positions with world-class news organizations like the Texas Tribune and the Associated Press. All of this has improved diversity in newsrooms and strengthened reporting on vulnerable communities, such as disabled people, while improving the career outlook for veterans interested in becoming journalists.
