🚨IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Applications for Round 3 of Zenith are now live!! Submit your app by February 6th for a chance to be mentored by one of these incredible journalists :) DM us with any questions and please share!!
We are The Zenith Cooperative and we have one question: What if, without having to move to an expensive media market or work several jobs to finance an unpaid internship, you could have free support to build your media career?
Here’s our mission:
happy round 2⃣ of the Zenith mentorship program! 💘
we’re back with some new mentors in addition to last year’s, and more importantly, new mentees.🧵below on our pairs for 2022-2023!
(there's a lot of us, so we'll be posting throughout the day 🫶)
starting to feel like 2020 again with all these media layoffs. just this week:
VICE Media (laid off several longtime staffers)
Vox Media (owns Vox, NY Mag, Thrillist, more)
Gannett (USA Today/ownership of several smaller outlets)
+ the shuttering of Protocol earlier this week
Hi everyone, a number of people have contacted us asking for more time to fill out the application so we have decided to extend the application deadline to tomorrow, July 5th, at 11:59 PM EST. We hope this gives a few more people the opportunity to apply!
the Zenith Cooperative Mentorships are underway!! here's a cute pic of some of our cute faces from our first big group meeting 🌟🥰
if you wanna keep up with the Zenith mentors and mentees on the bird app, follow this Twitter list we made ⤵️
thank you to everyone who has checked in about their application status! we know the industry norm doesn’t always get back to everyone and it’s fear-inducing (it’s happened to us too).
we’re still processing mentee applications and will get back to everyone as soon as we can!
applications for the first round of Zenith Coop Mentorships are officially closed 💞💞💞 we are so grateful for the enthusiasm about our new + growing community! 🥺🥺🥺
more soon 👀👀👀
Happy 2023!! We have many exciting events this year. First up mentors
@jaykayg
and
@PearseAnderson
are co-teaching a Zoom workshop on how to submit to lit mags on Jan 16th! Open to everyone, just rsvp at this link :-)
thank you again to everyone who applied to this round of the Zenith Coop mentorship! we just sent out updates on everyone's applications. if you don't see an email by tmrw, please check your spam folder.
we hope to publicly announce our matches sometime this month! 💫🥰🫶
Hello friends—we are extending the application deadline to give more folks time to apply! Applications
@zenithcoop
are now due this Saturday July 30th at 11:59 pm est.
on this note: we will be letting mentee applicants know about the status of their application in early September!
thanks for your patience with our fully volunteer cooperative, we're so excited to meet you 💫💻🥰🙏📰🫶
did I just scroll through 406 pages of
@zenithcoop
applications to choose potential mentees............. 406. pages. I'm beside myself! (in a good way)
@PearseAnderson
@ansonjtong
Elly Belle
@literElly
will work with Katie Walsh
@khwalsh_
, who is inspired by art and wants to write more about disability, and Aman Singh, who is currently researching/writing about the pop cultural lip filler phenomenon.
after many months of yall asking, u can find Zenith Cooperative on Substack 🫶💻🌠🍥
issue # 1 coming soon! it will feature
💫 quick profiles of our mentees
💫 work from Cooperative members
💫 programming announcements
💫 and mooooooore 💘
📬🖱️ 🖱️📬
Pearse Anderson
@PearseAnderson
will work with Anson Tong
@ansonjtong
. Anson likes acrylic painting and music, and is hopeful about changing the world by focusing on narrative and media.
Wowowow, just learned my essay
@TeenVogue
on how liberal media is failing in its reporting on trans life is a GLAAD Award nominee for best online journalism 🥲❤️🔥thank you
@glaad
for the recognition!
please remember that we’re doing this for the first time and it’s completely volunteer-run. we totally get being worried that you missed something, but we’re still just working on it 💓✨
Hello and thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in Zenith round 3!! We have decided to take a brief hiatus in order to rest and take stock of the last two years before resuming in 2024. You can read more here:
our website is looking pretty cute after a much needed refresh 🌠 with our new mentors and their bios! check it out 🫶
coming later this week - our new mentees! 💘
Want to learn more about protools?? Come join mentor
@xalopez
for a Zoom workshop on January 23rd to have all your questions answered!! Please rsvp here:
We are co-mentoring two mentees this year together for
@zenithcoop
. We are happy to announce that we’ll be co-mentoring
@ainamarzia_
and
@SiddhuPachipala
, two young students from the state of Texas that we’re thrilled to be working with! More about each below.
in this week's digest:
@ChikaEkemezie
profiles the Zenith Cooperative, and talks about how journalists can be good, realistic mentors without falling into the trap of saying "just don't become a journalist!"
We’re excited to announce that our 2022 Uprising Fellowship and 2022 Philly Movement Media Fellowship are now accepting applications!
Our paid, 6-month program provides training and mentorship to young writers interested in policing, prison, and justice.
In-person
@zenithcoop
meet-up with my incomparable mentor
@Rainesford
!!! Internet friends rule but internet to IRL friendships & mentorships rule even more!
When we reopen for applications we will be sure to update here and in our newsletter! You can subscribe to Zenith’s newsletter here:
Feel free to dm us here with any thoughts or questions! Thanks for your patience, y’all 💗
Still doing editing work for the
@Chicago_Reader
(haven't moved fully over to
@IndieMediaChi
just quite yet) and I'm happy to work with new-to-me writers like
@ansonjtong
. Check out Anson's story about Hot Potato Hearts dating events here ⬇️