Event

Hoping to work in journalism, media, or publishing after college? The annual Careers in Journalism and New Media alumni panel — co-sponsored by the Daily Pennsylvanian and the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize — focuses on how you can prepare for first jobs and careers in print, broadcast and online media, publishing, and related fields, as well as how to make decisions about extracurriculars, internships, and grad school in these areas. Moderated by Isabella Simonetti of the Wall Street Journal, the conversation will feature past winners of the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize: Madeleine Ngo of The New York Times, Ashley Parker of The Washington Post, and Jason Schwartz of Sports Illustrated. For more info about the prize and a full list of winners, visit the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize page.

MADELEINE NGO is an economic policy correspondent at The New York Times, based in the Washington bureau. She previously covered economic policy at the Times as the 2021–22 Rosenbaum fellow. She has interned at The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Dallas Morning News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Vox. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and was senior news editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian's 135th board.

ASHLEY PARKER is senior national political correspondent for the Washington Post, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Most recently, she served as the White House bureau chief, covering the first two years of the Biden presidency, as well as the entirety of the Trump presidency. In 2022, she was part of the Washington Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for their coverage of the causes, costs and aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. She was part of the Washington Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018, for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. She was also part of the Washington Post team that won the George Polk Award for national reporting in 2022, for the project “The Attack,” which chronicled the January 6 attack. In 2019, Parker served as one of the moderators for the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta, hosted by the Washington Post and MSNBC. Parker joined the Post in 2017, after 11 years at the New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, and Congress, among other things. She is an NBC/MSNBC senior political analyst, and has also written for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Glamour, and The Washingtonian, as well as other publications. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, with a degree in both English (creative writing) and Communications, and lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, New York Times political correspondent Mike Bender, and their three daughters.

JASON SCHWARTZ is the senior editor for investigations and enterprise at Sports Illustrated. Previously, he worked as a media reporter for POLITICO, a senior editor for ESPN The Magazine and in ESPN’s Outside the Lines investigative unit, and as an editor and writer for Boston Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Grantland, Slate, and the Boston Globe, among other places.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a media reporter at The Wall Street Journal where she covers cable news, streaming and sports media. She joined the Journal from the New York Times where she was the David Carr Fellow in Business Reporting. At the Times, Isabella covered breaking business economics news and wrote a number of enterprise stories on topics ranging from media to personal finance. Over the course of her fellowship, she wrote half a dozen stories for the front page of the Times. Previously, Isabella was a media reporter at the New York Observer. Isabella is originally from New York City and is a 2021 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, she served as president of the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Sponsored by: the Povich Journalism Program Fund, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize

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