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Advice for young Black journalists from an editor who used to be one
Young, gifted and unemployed? One Black editor’s advice for making a way in an industry that hasn’t always made room for you.
It was Kayla’s professors who said her voice wasn’t right for journalism.
A young Black woman fresh out of grad school, she was from the Bronx and spoke with a thick New York accent. At her writing gig, she cranked out five to six stories a day. After less than a year, she was laid off and waiting tables. And in the back of her mind was her professors’ naysaying.
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