Early in her journalism career, Naomi de Souza often found herself full of questions she didn’t feel comfortable asking in a hectic newsroom.

"Everyone’s busy, you don’t know who to ask, and sometimes you worry your questions are silly," she recalled at Newsrewired this week (26 November 2025).

What made the difference for her was having an external mentor – Kathryn Stanczyszyn, a BBC News presenter – who she found through the John Schofield Trust (JST), a leading UK charity that provides mentorship and training for journalists in honour of the journalist who was killed covering the former Yugoslavian War in Croatia in 1995, aged 29.

She recalled........

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