Colorado Press Association | Resume and Clips Review

Meet the mentors.

Doug Bell

Doug Bell, who recently retired from a 40-year career in journalism, hired scores of journalism grads during his career as an editor. He has taught college-level journalism classes for 25 years, including a course at Metropolitan State University called How to Get a Media Job. Bell chairs the ethics/media literacy committee for the Colorado Press Association and serves on the board of the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been presented SPJ's First Amendment Award, as well as the Keeper of the Flame honor for career achievement. Bell also was part of the Denver Post news-room team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the shootings at Columbine High School.

He lives in Denver with his wife, Christa, who works in communications for United Launch Alliance, and their excitable shepherd mix.

Lindsay Pierce

Lindsay Pierce is a video journalist at The Denver Post, where she has worked since 2011. She shoots, edits and produces videos on all subjects. Before starting in film, she worked as a still photographer for the Daily Times in Farmington, N.M., and for YourHub, the hyper-local section of The Denver Post. Professional recognitions include national Edward R. Murrow awards and Heartland Emmy awards. She was part of the Denver Post team recognized as finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting.

Pierce was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and studied photojournalism at Boston University. She now lives in Arvada, Colo. with her husband and their 2 daughters. Outside of work, she tries to do more running, biking and hiking than dishwashing and laundry.

Matt Sebastian

Matt Sebastian is the city editor for the Daily Camera and Longmont Times-Call newspapers in Boulder. He has worked as a news reporter, music critic and entertainment editor for the Camera, and also is a former editor of the Colorado Daily. A 1996 graduate of the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he previously worked as a reporter at the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah.

Beth Potter

Beth Potter, a CU graduate, has been a publisher, editor or reporter for close to 30 years in positions both overseas and in the United States as a foreign correspondent for both Reuters and Agence France-Presse, locally as a reporter for the Denver Post, the Boulder County Business Report, and The Vail Mountaineer. Currently she is the editor and publisher of three community newspapers in Brighton.