Patrice Peck on the 'Substackerati,' her Coronavirus News for Black Folks newsletter, media disruption, and more
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Patrice Peck, multimedia journalist and author of the Coronavirus News for Black Folks newsletter, talks with Brian Stelter about how her newsletter highlighted health disparities that have been aggravated by the pandemic. Peck reflects on the role of Black journalists and storytellers historically, and how the media business is transforming now. Peck also touches on her use of the newsletter platform Substack and the "opportunity" it has to better spotlight new content creators.
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| 0:00.0 | Coronovirus News is front and center right now. |
| 0:05.0 | So what are some of the opportunities to reach consumers in new ways? |
| 0:10.0 | To reach them where they are. |
| 0:12.0 | Those are a couple of the questions on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | So let's cue the music. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Brian Stelter and this is our |
| 0:23.2 | chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers. |
| 0:27.6 | There's been a lot of news lately about Substack, |
| 0:31.6 | about prominent journalists launching newsletter brands of their own, in some cases asking people to subscribe, and earning a living off of these newsletter platforms. Today I want to introduce you to someone |
| 0:45.0 | who's doing it a little bit differently. Patrice Peck created her newsletter called |
| 0:50.4 | coronavirus news for Black Folks in April, |
| 0:54.3 | as the pandemic upended everything. |
| 0:57.2 | Peck is a multimedia journalist who just wrote an article for Wired |
| 1:01.9 | titled, What Writing a Pandemic Newsletter Showed Me about America. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, Peck's newsletter is free. She is not launching this as some sort of massive business opportunity but she does |
| 1:14.6 | have a really interesting view into Substack into newsletters and into what |
| 1:21.0 | people need and what they want to know as this pandemic |
| 1:25.3 | rages on. So, Patrice, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:29.2 | Thanks for having me, Brian. How are you doing these days? |
| 1:32.3 | I'm taking every day a day at a time. |
| 1:36.0 | Definitely roller coaster of emotions and feelings, but you know I think I'm doing pretty well. Yeah there's no |
| 1:46.8 | shortage of news no shortage of dire news about coronavirus and everybody's bracing for the months to come. |
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