? Why mentoring matters

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Kristen Welker, taking over yesterday as the 13th moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," said she wanted to "recognize all of the women, all of the people of color, who've been pathfinders to make this moment possible, as well as all of the journalists who have mentored me along the way.

• "When my colleague Andrea Mitchell applied for her first job at a news radio station in Philadelphia in 1967, she was told the newsroom was no place for a woman. Well, she talked them into hiring her for the overnight shift. I'm here because she and other fearless women never stopped fighting for their places in the newsroom."

Mitchell pointed out in a WashPost op-ed:

"For the first time, every Sunday public affairs program will be moderated or co-moderated by a woman as Welker joins Dana Bash, Shannon Bream, Margaret Brennan, Jen Psaki and Martha Raddatz."

Video of Welker.