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20+ Inspiring Black Women Who Are Breaking Barriers and Making History
From politicians like Kamala Harris to athletes like Simone Biles, these trailblazing Black women are famous for breaking barriers and leading the way. → Read More
15 Best Cookbooks By Black Authors to Shop in 2020
Top Black chefs and culinary experts like Marcus Samuelsson and Carla Hall will help you create authentic soul food, vegan dishes, and more from home. → Read More
The Best Doctor-Approved Pregnancy Workouts
Seven doctor-approved workouts for pregnancy that will keep you healthy and help you get ready for your baby. → Read More
6 Therapy and Mental Health Resources for Black Women and Girls
These expert-backed options will get you started on the path to healing. → Read More
8 Instagram Mamas to Follow for Big Time Fitspo –
Scroll through Insta to see how these trainers, athletes and influencers share how they stay fit while balancing motherhood. → Read More
‘He’s not Cliff Huxtable’: Nicki Weisensee Egan on Chasing Cosby
Investigative journalist Nicki Weisensee Egan’s history with Bill Cosby dates back to the early ’80s, when she turned to The Cosby Show to cope with her older brother’s death. She never imagined that, more than two decades later, she would be assigned to cover the sexual assault case against him. For many, Cosby’s public […] → Read More
‘I never treated them like kids’: Q&A; with Parkland author Dave Cullen
On Valentine’s Day 2018, the lives of everyone at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, changed when a gunman shot and killed 17 students and staff members. That day’s tragedy, which media reports termed “all too familiar,” gave way to a vigorous national effort to strengthen gun-control laws, spearheaded by Parkland students. Dave […] → Read More
New site aims for ‘brutally honest’ environmental news
Climate change and the environment more broadly have garnered new interest in the wake of natural disasters including hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Responding to a lack of climate-focused narratives and deep-dive environmental reporting in mainstream media, Gizmodo Media Group last week launched Earther, which aims to highlight both the destruction humans have caused and […] → Read More
Reporters reveal how troll harassment chills coverage
Journalists have always faced angry feedback from those who don’t agree with their work. But modern internet culture, combined with a vitriolic political environment, has exposed reporters to a new level of scrutiny and harassment. No known tallies exist on the scope of the online abuse, but the rise of President Donald Trump, fueled by […] → Read More
Spinoff from Blavity caters to young black women
Entrepreneur Morgan DeBaun saw a gap in lifestyle coverage catering to young women of color and wanted to do something about it. Her solution: 21Ninety, a lifestyle-news website featuring articles and videos on topics like beauty, health, and fitness through the lens of black women. As the founder of a news site for black millennials, […] → Read More
Maggie Haberman tweets a lot more than you
When you start reading this story, Maggie Haberman will likely have just tweeted. By the time you finish, she’ll probably have tweeted again. The New York Times political reporter is well-known for her Page One stories about the president and his inner circle. She’s also known for being prolific on Twitter. How prolific? Haberman tweets […] → Read More
Equipment you’ll need to start your own podcast
More journalists are turning to podcasting to help audiences digest and discuss what’s going on in the news. Audiences have devoured newer podcasts like The New York Times’s The Daily, which gained more than 20 million listens since its launch in January, and Pod Save the People, hosted by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, […] → Read More
Small newsrooms in out-of-the-way places
Local news outlets across the country play an essential role in creating civically engaged and informed communities. Often, these outlets do their work with minimal resources. Sometimes, they do it with hardly anything, with one or two journalists taking on the specialized tasks of an entire news staff. Below, we highlight the efforts of some of […] → Read More
Here’s what freelance photographers face
From an editor’s point of view, the process is simple: Assign a freelancer, get amazing photos that help tell a story, pay them, repeat. For freelance photojournalists, it is often a different story. Among the frustratingly common challenges they face range from sparse communication after landing assignments, to fishy wording in contracts, to fighting for […] → Read More
Journalists and screenwriters team up for a new TV series inspired by El Chapo
In September 2013, Univision investigative journalist Gerardo Reyes turned down an interview with a source he had been chasing for years. The notorious Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, widely known as “El Chapo,” had agreed to an interview with Reyes—with the caveat that he wanted approval on the final product. Reyes declined. “We don’t […] → Read More
Freelance photographers say these are the best outlets to pitch
Freelance photojournalists have to hustle. Many make it work by balancing longer personal projects, quick day-rate assignments, commercial photo work, and even other jobs such as teaching or bartending. It can be even harder for photographers to stay motivated with typical industry malarkey like terrible rates, waiting months to get paid, and editors disappearing when […] → Read More
Freelance photographers say these are the best outlets to pitch
Freelance photojournalists have to hustle. Many make it work by balancing longer personal projects, quick day-rate assignments, commercial photo work, and even other jobs such as teaching or bartending. It can be even harder for photographers to stay motivated with typical industry malarkey like terrible rates, waiting months to get paid, and editors disappearing when […] → Read More
Condé Nast: Freelancer contract change is not what you think
Condé Nast briefly riled its corps of freelance reporters and photographers this week with an updated contract that allows for quicker payment in exchange for a discount on the agreed-upon rate. The memo’s language called it a courtesy option for vendors in need of cash fast. But the magazine giant—first called out on the change […] → Read More
Modern-day magazine business model relies on ‘tricks and goodies’
Good journalism is simply not enough to sustain magazine revenue these days, according to two business-side veterans who spoke at a panel at Columbia Journalism School on Monday. “Magazines don’t make sufficient money just by producing a magazine,” says David Rose, publisher of the history-focused literary magazine Lapham’s Quarterly. “You have to do all kinds […] → Read More
Relying on federal funding might be a fatal mistake for public media
President Donald Trump unveiled a budget proposal yesterday that would make substantial cuts to the federal government, slashing funding for many domestic programs including agencies that provide funding to the arts and public media. Although bigger media organizations including the flagship NPR and PBS and larger affiliate station operators have diversified revenue streams that could […] → Read More