Janice Dean, senior meteorologist for the Fox News Channel, says Berg has been a cheerleader throughout Dean’s career. “I do spend quite a good deal of time mentoring Fox News employees.” “It’s part of my duty of giving back, to mentor and raise that next generation and expose what I’ve learned, and keep that door open and invite the others through,” Berg says. “She allowed me to be myself, and as a Black woman, that is just so incredibly important.”īerg believes in the power of mentorship and her responsibility to share what she’s learned. You don’t have to try to be anything other than your authentic self,’” Hicks says. Just be who you are on television and everything else would follow. “One thing Sharri said to me is: ‘You have a great personality, a great smile. Hicks says Berg has the ability to see in people what they can’t always see in themselves and helps young journalists catch up with that vision.īerg’s mentorship helped her become comfortable being herself as a journalist. Mitti Hicks, Fox Weather multimedia journalist, applied for the MMR program in 2018 and has been mentored by Berg. “It’s really creating the next generation of journalist, and along the way using the technology that made it possible for journalists to be one-person operations out in the field.” The program, Berg says, was borne of a combination of needs, including providing the “proper training for young journalists before they go out and learn bad habits, or aren’t being trained in the way that they should and being mentored,” she says. The two-year MMR training program, begun about 12 years ago, trains journalists freshly out of school or with one or two years of experience in a small market. “One of my favorite accomplishments at Fox has been developing the multimedia reporter training program,” she says. Some of the journalists who work for Fox Weather came up through the Fox News Multimedia Reporter Training Program training program for young MMRs, which Berg helped found more than a decade ago. “It’s great to say you own local weather, and you have America’s weather team for anything that’s outside your local DMA.” “Today, we’re a fully functional Fox Weather experience,” she says. In March of 2021, nine people were working on Fox Weather. “We had a plan, we knew what we wanted to do, when we wanted to launch and we knew there was a huge opportunity coming that fall, so we were able to very quickly, unheard of, build this incredible studio and technology and hire some of the best meteorologists,” she says. She attributes the speed of its creation to Fox’s entrepreneurial roots and flat organizational structure. The Fox Weather OTT platform was built from scratch within the Fox organization over 10 months during the pandemic. “Everyone says Fox Weather is like my wedding, with everyone coming together in one place,” she says. Fox’s MMRs, drones, affiliates, crews and sat trucks all contribute to the nascent outlet, which launched initially on digital and streaming and has since been iterating partly on Fox Business Channel. And many Fox resources were called on during the development of Fox Weather.
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