Bianca Graulau Reports From the Colony

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bianca Graulau is an independent journalist who's been using TikTok and YouTube to tell you what’s going on in Puerto Rico—whether you live there or not. By explaining Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States in English to an audience outside of the island, she’s also gathered a huge following there as well. Her own top video has 11 million views.

Continuing our 5th anniversary Hurricane Maria coverage on Latino USA, La Brega host Alana Casanova-Burgess visits Graulau in Camuy, Puerto Rico, to talk about her journalism and what it means in a post-Maria society.

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0:00.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inujosa.
0:15.6	Today, Bianca Grolo wants everyone to know that Puerto Rico is a US colony.
0:28.0	Bianca Grolo is an independent journalist who's been using TikTok and YouTube to tell
0:33.7	you what's going on in Puerto Rico, whether you live there or not.
0:38.8	By explaining Puerto Rico's colonial relationship with the United States in English to an audience
0:44.1	outside of the island, she's also gathered a huge following there as well.
0:49.5	Her own top video has 11 million views.
0:53.3	And that was before she teamed up with Bad Bunny on a report about displacement in Puerto Rico.
1:07.3	Alana Casanova, Burgess, host of the Labriga podcast from Futuro Studios and WNYC Studios,
1:15.3	recently went to Puerto Rico to find out more about Grolo's popularity and also to chat one-on-one
1:21.0	with the journalist. Here's Alana with that story.
1:30.5	It was June and I figured there was one place in Puerto Rico with a completely captive
1:35.4	audience of TikTok users.
1:41.0	Thousands of bad buddy fans were camping outside a arena for literally days,
1:45.8	waiting to get tickets to his San Juan concerts.
1:48.6	I was there to ask about Bianca Grolo.
2:00.6	It didn't take me long to find some fans, like Alina, who is 18.
2:07.8	She knows that Bianca used to be a reporter in the States.
2:10.6	But she quit her job in order to cover Puerto Rico to expose us to the world.
2:32.2	This is Jonathan.
2:33.5	He likes that Bianca is letting people know that Puerto Rico is not a paradise for everyone.
2:46.6	She connects with Bianca.
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