Doug Mitchell spent nearly 22 years at NPR as a producer and director. In 2000, he founded NPR’s student training program “next generation radio.” It gave hundreds of competitively selected college students a chance to conceive, develop, report, edit, write, and produce their own story under the tutelage of a professional journalist mentor. Several dozen graduates of this program are currently working in public and commercial media and you can hear them on the air almost everyday.

Today, Doug co-leads a Ford Foundation funded media entrepreneurs startup camp under UNITY: Journalists of Color. He’s the career coach for Knowledgewebb.net where he writes a blog and hold live chats about work and life. Doug is a 1978 alum of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund program, a 1997 Knight International Press Fellow to Chile, and a 2007 William S. Fulbright Scholarship recipient, also to Chile.