A Newsroom’s Fight Against Misinformation in the Black Community

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Lauren Williams, former Editor-in-Chief of Vox , sits down with Jon to talk about launching Capital B News, a new local-national nonprofit news organization that centers Black voices. Together, they discuss how the murder of George Floyd inspired a “great reckoning” in newsrooms; how this new organization is aiming to rebuild trust in the black community by providing high-quality, local reporting; and the ways the media has failed people of color in its coverage of Critical Race Theory. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.6	Misinformation, disinformation,
0:02.2	lack of trust in institutions
0:04.0	that has been caused by, you know,
0:06.3	centuries of systemic racism, huge problems.
0:09.6	How do you even start to go about fixing those
0:12.6	as you guys are sitting down and putting this plant together?
0:16.9	Yeah, like we can't fix all that, we can't fix that.
0:18.8	We can't fix systemic racism.
0:20.8	I think that too often this conversation,
0:23.2	particularly around misinformation and disinformation
0:25.8	is just too ambitious, you know?
0:29.0	How are we going to solve this?
0:30.4	Well, people lying.
0:32.2	That's a tough one.
0:34.6	Well, we'll shut down Facebook and Twitter first
0:36.9	and then go back to like landlines,
0:40.4	know what cell phones.
0:42.5	I'm John Fabro, welcome to offline.
0:46.8	Hey everyone, my guest this week is Lauren Williams,
0:49.7	former editor-in-chief of Vox
0:51.7	and now founder and CEO of Capital B News.
0:55.6	So last week, I happened to catch
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