Looking for mentors

Welcome to the people who joined this list and/or my list of leadership tips after a Canadian Association of Newspaper Editors seminar in Halifax last weekend. (And if you just meant to sign up for the leadership tips, please let me know and I'll drop you from this list.) If you signed up then and think that a colleague who attended the Saturday session for reporters, please forward this to him or her. I forgot to offer the Saturday group the chance to join the list.

In a discussion over beers in Halifax, a reporter was interested in finding a mentor and I told about the editor I connected with a long-distance mentor by passing the request along to my leadership tips list. She liked the idea, so I'm seeking a writer who would mentor her. If you would be willing to be an occasional e-mail and telephone mentor to a young writer at a weekly newspaper in Canada, please let me know. As I did with the leadership mentors, I'll also invite people on this list who'd like a mentor to let me know. I'll match those seeking mentors with those volunteering. Tell me a little about yourself, whichever role you're seeking. I'll try to make good matches.

And now for a tip. This link actually comes from me. I don't often plug my own columns here, but my current "Training Tracks" column addresses an issue where too many writers today (not you, I hope) are woefully lacking – verification:  http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/7287.cfm

I also encourage you to read the plug that follows my signature, about an approaching deadline for a 2-for-1 opportunity on two API seminars that I believe will be excellent (OK, I'm in charge of one of them).