Nicola A. Menzie

Reporter

Entrepreneur

Podcaster

Speaker/Panelist

About Nicola

Nicola is a journalist with decades of experience in religion, race, and culture/entertainment reporting. Her bylines have appeared on the websites of Christianity Today, Sojourners Magazine, Washington Post, Religion News Service, CBS News, Vibe magazine, and others.

She has been quoted in several publications for her perspectives on race and faith, including WNYC and Washington Post.

A lauded writer whose work has been cited in numerous books, journal articles and dissertations, Nicola is also known for her entrepreneurial spirit and successful track record of launching and growing faith-based media ventures.

She routinely appears as a guest panelist at conferences and serves as a juror/judge of various journalism and book award competitions.

She holds a degree from New York University, an advanced certificate from Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, and has taken M.Div. courses at Alliance Theological Seminary in NYC.

Religion Reporter

Nicola’s work over the years has allowed her to interview influential movers and shakers such as N.T. Wright, Luis Palau, T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Tim Keller, Priscilla Shirer, Carl Lentz, Sarah Jakes, Tony Evans, Nick Vujicic, and other leading U.S. figures.

Speaker/Panelist

In the Summer of 2023, Nicola collaborated with several faith-based publications on a climate reporting series (“Growing a Green Church”) with support from the Solutions Journalism Network, and served as a New Jersey Sustainability Reporting Fellow.

Nicola appeared as a panelist for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s 2020 PubU event to discuss diversity and inclusion efforts in Christian publishing. She also spoke at the Just Gospel 2020 conference to address themes related to news media consumption. She has led workshops on Christian media engaging women of color and on women in publishing for the 2018 Evangelical Press Association. She served as a “Meet the Press” panelist to discuss best practices for artists seeking to gain media coverage at the 2016 Flavor Fest conference. She also appeared as one of five participants on a panel themed “Cover the Godbeat Using this One Weird Trick: Digital Tools for Reporting on Religion” at the Religion News Association’s 2016 conference.

Nicola appeared on “Interfaith Voices” to talk 2021’s big religion stories (January 2, 2022).

Founder and Publisher

Nicola is the Founding Managing Editor of Faithfully Magazine, an independently owned and operated multimedia platform reporting on issues, conversations, and events impacting Christian communities of color for an ethnically-inclusive and ecumenical audience.

Faithfully Magazine follows in the footsteps of the pioneering Black-owned Christian publication Gospel Today magazine, once the premier source of inspiration and information for the African American Christian community. In 2019, Gospel Today publisher Roland Hairston II passed the torch to faithfullymagazine.com.

Read Nicola’s interviews about Faithfully Magazine’s mission with Christianity Today and Religion Dispatches and listen to her comments on the publication in on the “Truth’s Table” podcast.

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