dial up

The Studio Executive Who Wants Hollywood to Get Real About Bad Storytelling

by

That’s fair. When you think about building stories from multiple audiences, not just audiences of color, but also queer audiences, disabled audiences, female audiences, I mean, we’re seeing so much evidence at the box office lately suggesting how difficult it is to construct a hit that isn’t a hit with BIPOC and female audiences. Unfortunately, … Read more

The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter Believes Journalism Can Survive Influencers

by

—at BuzzFeed. I bet they regret rejecting you now [laughs]. It’s funny because people will tell me, “Hey, we shared your tweet in our newsroom Slack channel. That’s how we found out about the story and now we’re going to write about it.” So you don’t have to have millions of followers, but I have … Read more