New America Media: LA Watts Times managing editor on why his paper covers the black community better than the MSM
June 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Press freedom and ethics
New America Media (NAM) reports on the LA Watts Times, a newspaper in Los Angeles, focusing on the black community. It is part of NAM’s LA Beez network, a collective of hyperlocal ethnic media.
“We try to look at positive stories that don’t portray blacks in a negative light, as we see in mainstream media,” managing editor Sam Richard says in the piece. “L.A. Watts Times has just been better in reporting deep down in the trenches.”
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