“One of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez’s resignation was the requirement to include at least three stories produced by Sinclair’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) on a nightly basis…a look at the RRT’s stories over the course of the year shows that the group frequently produces pieces that have more in common with right-wing agitprop than journalism.”

“You might say that AI companies are outsourcing the difficult and costly task of making contentious and disputed claims to the industry [the news industry] that is qualified, or at least willing, to do it, hopefully paying enough to keep the enterprises afloat.”

“Slack finding its way onto all of our devices has already made work feel like a nonstop thing. If you really want to bring more work into your life, adding these widgets could go even further, putting work front and center every time you open your phone.”

“Almost 200 volunteers have participated to varying degrees in our projects. Their dedication enables us to remain operational without external funding, keeping the project non-profit.”

“Didier Reynders, EU Commissioner for Justice, says customers shouldn’t be ‘lured into’ thinking they won’t see ads if they pay the subscription, or that it’s free despite the company profiting from their personal data. Companies must be transparent upfront about how they use user data, he added.”

“So we thought, well, rather than sell licenses for brands to have access to use this tool in their own way, why don’t we launch loads of our own newsletters that we own…publications that we own, where they’re all powered by this AI and we can generate our revenue by selling advertising, sponsorship and lead gen with these newsletters?”

“Semafor Gulf will launch with a team of staff reporters as well as columnists covering Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, and will continue to expand through 2025.”

“BBC headcount has fallen by 2,000 — or 10% — over the past five years, the corporation said, and a further 500 net public service posts will go over the next 20 months. A voluntary redundancy scheme was launched today. Headcount this year sat at 17,611.”

“The legal demand from Condé Nast comes a month after Forbes sent a similar letter to Perplexity, accusing it of infringing Forbes’ copyright. In Condé Nast’s letter, sent on Monday, the publisher accused Perplexity of plagiarizing its content. The challenge adds to a growing tide of legal actions facing AI startups over their use of news outlets’ content for training their large-language models.”

“But ‘The Trial of Hunter Biden,’ a six-part miniseries released on the Fox Nation streaming platform in 2022, portrayed an imagined courtroom prosecution of Biden on charges of violating bribery and foreign-agent laws that he has never faced in real life.”

“The stark extent of the BBC’s challenges are set out in the corporation’s annual report, which shows the total number of British households paying the £169.50 license fee fell to 23.9 million, suggesting a growing number of people feel able to go without BBC services. The fall has hit the BBC’s income at a time when its finances were already struggling owing to a decade of funding cuts and high inflation.”

“…giving more to our high-value supporters — we’ve gifted Feast to our subscribers on the classic subscription packages. And we have also made it available with an extended free trial to other supporters as well…We know that the more people read, the more they engage, the happier they are, and the better their retention is.”

“As more people online recognize breaking news as an opportunity to amass followers and attention, more non-traditional accounts and content creators will move into covering breaking news. We’re already seeing this phenomenon through the proliferation of what Caitlin Dewey recently described as ‘news hustlers.'”

“A state judge in Florida has given former President Donald J. Trump a legal victory, refusing to toss a libel lawsuit filed by Mr. Trump over a statement made by the board of the Pulitzer Prizes on coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to Russia … The case hinges on a statement made in 2022 by the panel reaffirming its decision to award the national reporting prize in 2018 to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Russian ties to the Trump campaign.”

“All news is local,” said John Paul Vranesevich, the owner and only full-time reporter for the Beaver Countian. “Everything that happens that the national [media] cares about is happening in some community, somewhere.”

“The Sheriff’s Department confirmed its investigation into [journalist Maya] Lau is closed and said it is no longer surveilling reporters.”

“Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training A.I. models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study published this week by the Data Provenance Initiative, an M.I.T.-led research group. The study, which looked at 14,000 web domains that are included in three commonly used A.I. training data sets, discovered an ’emerging crisis in consent,’ as publishers and online platforms have taken steps to prevent their data from being harvested.”

“A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), to 6-1/2 years in prison for spreading false information about the Russian army, the court revealed on Monday.”

“Even at news publications, there were vastly fewer revelatory stories on sensitive political issues and investigations on abuses of public power. Journalists shifted uncomfortably in their seats when they heard story ideas they felt could touch a nerve in the government. I saw editors press for extra-solid sourcing in anticipation of government condemnation.”

“Biden’s staff posted the news on X because they must have understood that, for better or worse, it is the quickest, least mediated way to inject information into the bloodstream of political and cultural discourse. (As Musk remarked about the mainstream media this afternoon: ‘They’re so slow.’)”

His employer, The Wall Street Journal, has been advocating for his release and called the verdict a “disgraceful, sham conviction.” The BBC reports that “Russian observers say a quick conviction could mean that an exchange is imminent. According to Russian judicial practice, an exchange generally requires a verdict to already be in place.”

“Despite having more TikTok followers than Beyoncé or Reese Witherspoon, he has received little attention in the national press, perhaps because his videos are mainly in Spanish. But he drew attention last month with videos that he filmed with President Biden as he announced two new immigration measures.”

“The data, collected by BrightEdge and reported on by Search Engine Land, suggests that Al Overviews dropped from appearing in 11 percent of queries on June 1 to 7 percent of queries on June 30. BrightEdge’s data also indicates that Al Overviews cite Reddit and Quora dramatically less than they did before.”

“The journalist, Giulia Cortese, was also given a suspended fine of 1,200 euros for a jibe on Twitter, now named X, in Oct. 2021 about [PM Giorgia] Meloni’s height, that was defined as ‘body shaming’…A high number of lawsuits brought against journalists was cited this year by Reporters Without Borders, which relegated Italy five places to 46th in its 2024 World Press Freedom Index.”

“We give the people what they want. We don’t take ourselves too seriously when appropriate. I think it’s Metro’s role to provide the UK with access to free, impartial and trustworthy news. But it’s news and entertainment.”

“Researchers will gain access to Instagram data for up to six months, which may include information on how many accounts a teen follows, how much they use Instagram, their account settings, and more. However, Meta notes it won’t provide access to a user’s demographic information, nor will it include the contents of their posts, comments, or messages.”

“…accusing it of whipping up “unspeakable” hatred of Jews, Muslims and foreigners while undermining the country’s constitutional democracy. In what she called a “hard blow” against the far right, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, ordered dawn raids in four German states at properties linked to the publication, which is ideologically close to the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party and promotes its drive for power.”

“The notion of a WBD split could see [up to $39 billion in] debt stay with linear networks, while the growing OTT service could hit a higher valuation multiple and be given the potential to invest in its growth, per FT.”

“The arrangement — which several veteran television news producers described as unorthodox — has created something of a trompe l’oeil effect. A casual glance at the screen would suggest that MSNBC’s top anchors were covering the convention in person.”

“For over a decade, I have been critical of Taboola (and its one-time rival, Outbrain), equating them to the internet’s venereal disease that never goes away. In 2017, when the two companies merged, it became clear that what was the herpes of the internet was mutating into a superbug. I said as much on Twitter. Well, that day has come, and even Apple is now infected.”

“Broadsheet Media, which publishes the culture and community news website Broadsheet and has 65 full-time employees, said it estimated it would lose up to 52% of its revenue if Meta no longer distributed news.”

“Fittingly, for an event involving a former President notorious for spreading disinformation and inanity online, the assassination attempt on Trump suggests just how rapidly today’s social platforms can distort a deadly serious news event into misleading tidbits and gleefully empty jokes.”

“The termination, if linked to [Selina] Cheng’s position at HKJA, would be the latest indication of how even large, well-resourced international media organizations are wary about the risks of operating in Hong Kong, a once-freewheeling city that has increasingly come to resemble mainland China in its suppression of civil liberties, including press freedom.”

Pro News Coaches “is composed of a cadre of former Wall Street Journal editors and reporters working pro bono to help newsrooms – be they small and undercapitalized or large and financially secure – realize challenging hard news, features, and enterprise pieces they might not otherwise have had the wherewithal to produce.”

“Axios analyzed the home pages and lead stories of the largest news website in each U.S. state from 9:30p.m. to midnight on Saturday. Many local outlets posted the same stories, photos and headlines aggregated from a central desk at their parent company, such as Gannett, Lee Enterprises or Advanced Publications.”

The proposed rules “would bring Spain in line with the European Media Freedom Act approved in March. That act is designed to regulate the media but also shield journalists from state spying or being forced to reveal their sources.”

“With its lines of merch, games, and hot sauces, Hot Ones is playing all the BuzzFeed hits, but with one crucial difference—it’s relevant. But that relevance isn’t worth the cost of BuzzFeed’s debt, which threatens to obliterate the husk of BuzzFeed that’s leftover from the last seven years.”

“The majority of people who responded to my survey, 37%, heard about the shooting from friends and family. Most of them got a direct text message or other direct contact. Some of them heard about it in a group chat.”

“The broadcaster said the sports bulletins are written by generative AI using articles on gbnews.com and that they are then read out by ‘the virtual voice’ of GB News presenter Tatiana Sanchez.”

“Some may wish to see the conspiracy peddling, cynical politicking, and information warfare as a kind of gross aberration or the unintended consequences and outputs of a system that’s gone awry. This is wrong. What we are witnessing is an information system working as designed.”

“As an authorized advertising reseller for Apple News and Apple Stocks, Taboola will power native advertising placements within those two apps in every market available.”

“If Donald Trump retakes the White House, the United States will halt most efforts to preemptively regulate artificial intelligence, and Silicon Valley will be allowed to pursue superintelligent systems with minimal oversight.”

“Given the enormous stakes involved in Saturday’s shooting, reporters generally exercised discipline, limiting themselves to what they could see and hear….Few of the initial accounts of the shooting — which injured Trump slightly; killed a Pennsylvania man, Corey Comperatore; and critically wounded two others — were outright wrong. Instead, readers jumped on the stories’ hesitant approach.”

“People who support the rapid development of AI, specifically the self-designated ‘effective accelerationists’ (e/acc) or ‘techno-optimists,’ have latched on to two positions they share with Vance: the idea that big tech companies are promoting government regulation of AI that benefit them as incumbents, and the idea that those same companies and the government are trying to imbue AI with leftist ideology.”

“The misinformation reflects a wider trend of belief that elites are ‘plotting’ against the larger public or working with media and social media companies to ‘hide the truth’ from us, two narratives that our recent DDIA poll found to be increasingly penetrating in the United States. The false information circulating is also reflective of a fissure of distrust between the right and left in the US and across the Americas.”

“When, in the line of duty, you have spent enough hours loading up your tray with mashed potatoes, rolls, biscuits and an extra slice of pie, you eventually have to ask yourself whether you are standing in the buffet line for the audience or for yourself.”

“The rise of social media and parallel decline of mainstream journalism have enabled us to create what researcher Renee DiResta calls ‘bespoke realities’: custom versions of the truth that reflect what we already want to believe…unlike in 2020, platforms showed this weekend that they are increasingly comfortable sitting on the sidelines of contentious news stories, content to let users seek out whichever versions of the truth most appeal to them.”

“For the regular search, you will see AfD popping up more often, because the AfD is more present on TikTok, but for the search suggestions there’s also this algorithmic aspect where someone makes the decision to relate these two searches,” said Martin Degeling, who tracks AI-based recommendation systems at Interface, a European IT think tank. “You search for the Green Party, and the AfD pops up, you search for the CDU and the AfD pops up, [but] you search for AfD, no other party pops up.”

“Our investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce. The dataset, called YouTube Subtitles, contains video transcripts from educational and online learning channels like Khan Academy, MIT, and Harvard. The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the BBC also had their videos used to train AI, as did The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“Worker-run newsroom: When?” Maddie Poore asked her old co-workers on the night they gathered to commiserate over the closure of DCist. “When are we going to do this? We need this as a city.”

“Russian police put Gessen on a wanted list in December, and Russian media reported the case was based on statements they made about atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in an interview with a popular Russian online blogger.”

“The station is also reducing third-party costs and compensation for senior leaders and will renegotiate several contracts to reduce spending, the statement said. It did not specify how much those moves will save.”

“The shooting threw into overdrive a phenomenon dubbed “BlueAnon” — a play on the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon — that refers to liberal conspiracy theories online. As more Americans lose trust in mainstream institutions and turn to partisan commentators and influencers for information, experts say they are seeing a big uptick in the manufacture and spread of BlueAnon conspiracy theories, a sign that the communal warping of reality is spreading well beyond the right.”

“Vanan becomes the nonprofit’s second leader, succeeding founder and CEO Mukhtar M. Ibrahim.”

“There has of course been overheated media coverage of Trump, but covering his threats to democracy is not overheated in and of itself, and ‘the media’ is a very big place. Some of the critics seemed to be accusing journalists of being both overly reckless and, at least in their coverage of the shooting’s immediate aftermath, overly cautious (even if that’s not what they thought they were criticizing).”

“They threw us out, but we didn’t disrespect anyone. We were on the side of the people, showing what was happening, and we were physically attacked by those who controlled access…We were doing journalism, our job, showing what was happening,” journalist Leo Paradizo told La Nación.

“The Biden crisis also exposes the risks of developing audiences that can’t differentiate between critical-but-fair journalism and ideological media that primarily serves a political party. Playing on audiences’ political views can be useful in the short term — for, in particular, driving subscriptions, the new lifeline for American news media — but clearly can result in some angry readers and subscribers when you tell them what they don’t want to hear.”

“The only cost in the past for being able to disseminate these messages for zero cost to a billion people was producing it. AI changes the economics of the production of disinformation and turns that to zero as well. So what we are now in is that we’ve very, very quickly gone from the conventional age of disinformation to the nuclear age of disinformation with social media, and now to the thermonuclear age of disinformation, where AI and social media combine.”

“I shoot politics for a living, man,” Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci said. “Every single photo I take people are going to argue about. I spend my life around a very highly polarized part of our society, so no matter what I do, people are gonna hate it. People are gonna love it. Listen, as long as everyone hates me equally, I’m doing the job.”

“Despite making almost no revenue, it pays journalists ‘the highest rates’ to carry out months-long reporting projects using venture capital invested by a hedge fund manager and occasional high-stakes poker player.”

“Most publishers are aware that a portion of their subscription revenue is lost to involuntary churn, but addressing it thoroughly hasn’t been top of priority lists for many. As their subscription businesses grow and mature, however, it’s becoming clear that failed payments and unintentional cancellations represent a significant and growing revenue opportunity.”

“The media has never been more discussed, dissected, and maligned, but its actual power seems to be on a steep decline.”

“AI is coming, it is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens. Transition might be bad, the transition might be good, but we believe the odds of it being good for journalism and the kind of work we do with The Atlantic are higher if we participate in it. So we took that approach.”

“Under the separation being discussed, Axel Springer’s chief executive Döpfner and Friede Springer, the widow of the company’s founder, would assume greater control of the group’s media properties, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. These include U.S. news sites Politico and Business Insider, and German publications Bild and Die Welt.”

And “the pro-Kremlin news site Gazeta.ru has reported that the Russian authorities are ‘planning to permanently block’ YouTube in September, citing a source close to the Putin administration and a source in a company that collects data for law enforcement agencies.”

“The two edits, according to the station, were: 1. At time 5:20, the removal of ‘…and in addition to that, I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.’ 2. At time 14:15, in reference to Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, the removal of ‘I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he — but they said […] convicted of murder.'”

“The team was announced as a ‘significant, sustained commitment to ensure race coverage is a permanent part of our journalism’ in a memo to staff in the wake of the anti-racism protests sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd.” Members of the team have been reassigned. A CNN spokesperson said: “It’s not a unit in the way it was before, but [Race and Equality] is very much still their focus.”

“Is there a version of Crooked Media where we bite our tongues and repeat talking points? Maybe that gets us a Biden interview? Sure, but that’s not how I want to operate, that’s not how any of us want to operate. I think our audience is smart, they’re super politically engaged people. If we came on the next day and said, ‘Everything’s fine. Don’t worry about it.’ They wouldn’t believe it.”

“If companies we used to work at are going to let go of old domains, it only makes sense that former employees scoop them up before spammers get the chance to ruin it. If you worked somewhere you care about and their domain is offline, do yourself a favor and take a close look at domainr.com, and see if they’re doing a good job at protecting their domains. If they aren’t, it might be an opportunity to protect former coworkers from spammers ruining their search results or beloved old products from being exploited.”

“[Mauricio] Bustos is at the vanguard of discussions on how the new era of generative AI tools could change music as we know it. While established artists are calling for greater protection from AI cloning, Bustos believes AI is a democratizing tool that challenges an industry monopoly and gives grassroots producers and songwriters a better shot at breaking through. AI simply means that he doesn’t have to limit himself to his own technical or vocal skills — he can be ‘any voice he wants,’ he said.”

“The military alliance is this week wrestling with such heady topics as the eventual accession of Ukraine and the ailing health of the octogenarian US president. To stay relevant in the modern era, it has turned to a group of 20-something influencers to spread its message.”

“AdVon didn’t come out of nowhere. For years, according to former colleagues, internal documents, and court records, a person behind the operation has seemingly used his connections in the media industry to enrich himself: Ben Faw, CEO and cofounder of AdVon. For Faw, AI-generated sludge was just the next tactic to do so.”

“Yes, the losses can be cut, probably to zero, at least in the near term. But if that’s the objective, the Post will — all the rhetoric about three newsrooms notwithstanding—join the majority of American metro papers in charting a fitful and painful decline, albeit starting from a much higher altitude, and perhaps at a slower pace, given its still-considerable remaining assets in terms of brand, quality and talent. Alternatively, I don’t think it’s too late for the Post to take yet another run at the Times, as it has done occasionally over the last half century, and possibly to prevail, or to reach an acceptable and profitable parity. But that approach, I believe, would require major new investment…”

“In the case of TUAW, the actual identities of real journalists are being stolen and are being tied to articles that they had nothing to do with. This not only serves to devalue the work that they once did on TUAW, but also pollutes web searches for their work and puts their name on work that is AI generated and of extremely low quality.”

“The philanthropy-supported nonprofit sector ‘doesn’t need more coaches,’ [Trust co-founder and CEO Elizabeth] Hansen Shapiro said in an interview. ‘There are plenty of those.’ Moving beyond encouragement and skill-building into breakthrough improvements with measurable goals is much more urgent. ‘We have (shifted) to 25% making direct investments and 75% execution,’ she said. Originally, the split between the two was the reverse.”

“The designation comes amid a crackdown on critical news media and the opposition. It means the newspaper must stop any work in Russia and it subjects any Russian who cooperates with the paper to up to five years in prison. It is a more severe measure than the ‘foreign agent’ designation applied to the news outlet in November, which subjects individuals and organizations to increased financial scrutiny and requires any of their public material to prominently include notice of being declared a foreign agent.”

“The Times entered its ad sales arrangement with the show in 2020, a period when many producers were changing hands and looking for better deals. As the podcast ad market constricted over the past 18 months, the two organizations decided not to renew their agreement. The Times will still make the program’s archive and most recent episodes available to subscribers through its audio app.”

“[Elizabeth] Green believes one tactic that’s been overlooked is the focus on topic-specific coverage rather than broader community news that newspapers used to own, like crime, weather and local sports.”

“Matt Payton, chief executive of Radiocentre, the industry body for commercial radio, said the move was an ‘encouraging first step,’ a ‘significant shift by Ofcom’ and the first time the regulator had accepted that an online-only BBC radio service could impact competition. ‘This stands to reason considering the rapid growth in online radio listening and the importance of online revenues,’ he said.”

“Her departure comes days after word that the network’s parent company, Paramount, would merge with Skydance Media.”

“Shortly after the clip was posted to Instagram, the videos were removed and Democracy Now received a takedown notice saying that it had shared ‘symbols, praise, or support of people and organizations we define as dangerous.’ According to one person familiar with the takedown notice, the posts went ‘against the community guidelines on dangerous individuals and organizations.'”

“Comments will be private by default (similar to Q&A responses), so creators will have to approve each comment they want to appear. Creators can choose to have comments available for their whole show or just for specific episodes, and, if they don’t want to allow comments at all, they can opt out of the feature.”

“Jason Walker bought a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 for $99, when he was 18…In May, Rolling Stone said it was switching lifetime subscriptions from print to digital-only.”

“As the number of local journalists employed across the country continues to shrink, dozens of colleges are trying to help fill gaps in reporting. Their approach? Giving students an opportunity to do real-world journalism for university credit while at the same time helping surrounding communities with local news coverage.”

“Writers weren’t even allowed to access their CMS to say goodbye…Denied even that last dignified act — and disclosure time, because I’ve worked closely with many of these people and think they’re all amazing — I’ve turned Aftermath over for one blog to former editors and writers of Kotaku Australia, so that they can share their thoughts and say their goodbyes.”

A disability discrimination lawsuit filed by health care reporter Stephanie Armour, who left the Wall Street Journal in late spring, accuses the paper of seeking to shed staffers who incur significant health care costs by invoking “trumped up performance issues.”

“USA Today left critics aghast when it debuted 42 years ago. Rival editors sneered at its bite-sized news stories and its relentlessly cheerful tone. (Headline on a plane crash story in the first edition: ‘Miracle: 327 survive, 58 die.’) The reporting was often so brief and superficial that even insiders joked that their work would win awards for ‘best investigative paragraph.’ It was quickly dubbed ‘McPaper,’ the news equivalent of junk food.”

“I never expected to become a real reporter. While the other students in my first journalism class could go out into the community to interview sources, my options were limited. As an inmate, the only people I could interview were other prisoners and the guards.”

“How can the Times overindulge in coverage of Biden’s age one day, only to stand accused of participating in an industry-wide failure on that same issue the next day? It cannot; this is a silly proposition that takes flight based on a couple of factors.”

“‘Threads still seems like a platform in search of a mission,’ says Lia Haberman, an independent digital strategist and author of the ICYMI newsletter on marketing and the creator economy. ‘The focus isn’t news. It’s not about visual creativity or video, like Instagram or TikTok. So what is it?'”

“Even as courts push back, the notion that checking facts means curtailing free speech is becoming rooted in contemporary conservatism.”

“Latin American journalists know that today we can tell a story, but we never take for granted that we will wake up with that freedom.”

“There’s little meaningful data at this point to suggest that discounting for news publishers’ news subscription products is any more prevalent (or concerning) than it is in other industries. In the streaming video market, for example, 40% of subscribers paid less than full price in 2023, according to research firm Antenna.”

“When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail…Sued for defamation by the state’s former governor — a top subject of their reporting — they have been hit with a court order requiring them to turn over internal files including the names of confidential sources. They say the order is a threat to journalism that they will resist.”

“Available on the ElevenLabs platform starting today, the offering allows creators to remove unwanted ambient noise and sounds from any piece of content they have, right from a film to a podcast or YouTube video.”

“Sure, Mr. Ellison, 41, now ranks as a bona fide Hollywood mogul. But what does that even mean in 2024? His ascendance bears no resemblance to the robber barons like [Sumner] Redstone who came before him, partly because there is precious little left to rob.”

“Smartmatic, the voting technology company enmeshed in complex defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, has a powerful new financial ally…Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has made a multimillion-dollar investment intended in part to help the company sustain its costly litigation.”

“Lisa Nandy, the U.K.’s new culture secretary, has a history of backing the BBC license fee and praising local journalism in her constituency. But Nandy has said the BBC’s structure needs reform and that it should be ‘owned and directed by license fee holders.'”

“There was really no soccer-only media platform in the States that was covering the game at the depth that Goal covers soccer globally…And that in itself is, I think, where the opportunity really exists.”

“The growth signals how much the platform has become a cultural force in the Black community, wielding enough power to not only cover culture but also to shape it.”