“If we really want to serve communities that are increasingly tuning us out, increasingly unsubscribing, increasingly looking the other way — my God, we’ve got to go to the communities directly.”
“You say you’re giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you’re actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms. But they’re not filtering down enough.”
“We need to get off that perch and really try to understand, try to walk in the other person’s shoes, live as they live, breathe as they breathe, see as they see.”
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Tracie Powell: “We’re supposed to challenge power…it seems like we’ve abdicated that to social media”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 15 Oct. 2015. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2015, Oct. 15). Tracie Powell: “We’re supposed to challenge power…it seems like we’ve abdicated that to social media”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/tracie-powell-were-supposed-to-challenge-power-it-seems-like-weve-abdicated-that-to-social-media/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Tracie Powell: “We’re supposed to challenge power…it seems like we’ve abdicated that to social media”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 15, 2015. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/tracie-powell-were-supposed-to-challenge-power-it-seems-like-weve-abdicated-that-to-social-media/.
Wikipedia
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