How BIPOC-Focused Journalism Outlets and Their Communities Served One Another During the Pandemic

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Three historic BIPOC-focused media outlets are celebrating anniversaries this fall - India Currents turns 35, Willie Ratliff, the publisher of San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper turns 90, and the Mission’s El Tecolote turns 52. These outlets may be small (compared to the mainstream media) but they are mighty. We’ll find out how their communities sustained their local media through the pandemic, and how the outlets sustained their communities in turn. Thriving together through difficult times. Guests: Vandana Kumar, Editor-in-chief, publisher and co-founder, India Currents. Nube Brown, Editor-in-chief, San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper. Alexis Terrazas, Editor-in-chief, El Tecolote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	There is a venerable tradition of journalism from and for marginalized communities.
1:18.6	And today we talk with three longtime publications from the Bay Area.
1:22.6	India Currents, which covers Silicon Valley's South Asian community, celebrates 35 years of publication this year.
1:29.3	The Missions El Tocolote is more than 50, and the San Francisco Bayview Black National
1:34.3	Newspaper has been publishing since the mid-1970s, and under the current management for 28 years,
1:40.3	these publications provide an important counterpoint to the mainstream press, but the internet has changed everything for all media.
1:47.3	So what's the role for these papers in this new world?
1:50.1	We'll talk with the editors of these three publications after this news.
2:14.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're joined this morning by three editors-in-chief of local publications that are embedded in and serve particular Bay Area Bipak communities.
2:20.7	They're grassroots organizations with venerable histories and like all of us in media,
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