Culture Journalists Are Reentering Their Blog Era But Is Second Time a Charm?
But much like the blog era will any of this lead to an actual living wage?
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Last month forever Senior Culture Reporter for HuffPost, Candice Frederick posted on BlueSky that with news room almost exclusively made up of white journalists, that Black and Brown journalists were moving into their “blog era.” It’s something that journalists, BIPOC and femme-centric journos, have been noticing for the last year, as newsrooms decide DEI is dead and return to the bad old days of white/cis/het/male/abled newsrooms. And it seems like a journalist is being laid off and starting a Substack every other day.
