Why I’m devoting a year to helping black newspapers survive

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Headshot photograph of a woman wearing hoop earrings, a necklace and a white button-down. On the lower leftside Orange rectangle box with white lettering Regina H. Boone Knight-Wallace Fellow.

As black communities risk being overlooked by many newsrooms, so do black newspapers risk being overlooked or undervalued by advertisers. During the next year, I’ll study family, legacy and the viability of black newspapers in America as a Knight-Wallace fellow. When I first returned to the Richmond Free Press, I felt consumed by questions: How might we keep the paper relevant, and financially sound? Those questions evade easy answers, but they’ll power my research, and they sustain my conviction that no community deserves to be left behind.

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