Nicola A. Menzie

News Reporter

Podcast Host

Speaker/Panelist

Entrepreneur

Nicola A. Menzie

News Reporter

Podcast Host

Speaker/Panelist

Entrepreneur

About Nicola

Nicola is a religion reporter who writes on the intersection of race, culture, and Christianity. Nicola is also the Founding Managing Editor of Faithfully Magazine (faithfullymagazine.com), a news and culture publication centering on Christian communities of color. 

She is a proven and passionate professional who has been successfully producing content, on staff and independently, for decades.

Her work has appeared or been mentioned in such outlets as The Washington Post, Christianity Today, the Religion News Service, The Christian Post, CBS News, Vibe.com, and elsewhere.

Reporter

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

Nicola has also been featured by Christianity Today and Religion Dispatches and quoted in several publications, including WNYC and The Washington Post. Her work has been cited by The Washington Post, Religion Dispatches, Vulture.com, and other publications, as well as in numerous published books.

Speaker/Panelist

Nicola presents her plans for Faithfully Magazine during the 2016 Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellowship in NYC.

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, a news and culture publication centering on Christian communities of color via a quarterly magazine, website (faithfullymagazine.com), newsletter and podcast. Faithfully Magazine’s first print issue was funded via a successful Kickstarter campaign in January 2017.


Nicola holds a B.A. in Journalism from New York University (2002) and has pursued graduate-level studies at Alliance Theological Seminary (Nyack College) in NYC.

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