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Lauren Williams

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first: 2022-02-08
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“I think you can bridge it by just not trying to do it the exact same way, right? I mean, we're not trying to do black newspapers the exact same way that they always were. I think not being snobby about the way people receive information is a really important way forward. But I also think being really realistic about the way people receive information, you know, being really realistic about, you know, are these kids on TikTok, are they ever going to pay for a newspaper subscription? Are they? I don't think they are. And so what's going to be the future of that model? We should really think about that. We should really think about the way that we're adapting to how folks are changing and how they're consuming their media and how they're getting their news and not waiting till it's too late.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think that the community writ large feels that to me is like one of the more challenging aspects of all media right now is you can point to historical media formats and media products and say we used to do this. Like this is a thing that used to exist for a long time and it got wiped out by a whole range of forces and particularly with younger audiences that has no resonance for them. They're just like, well, but I live in this TikTok world. I'm very sorry that investigative magazine journalism used to happen at a larger scale, but I'm doing T accounts on TikTok. How do you bridge that gap?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The progress isn't quite the progress that it seemed, and the things that were created because we needed them 20 years ago or 30 years ago or 50 years ago or 200 years ago in the case of black newspapers, we actually still need them. And we need to revive them.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think everything got politically very sanitized on the entertainment front in a way that I think really took a lot of the bite out of a lot of that black entertainment on TV and movies that then made it seem very just kind of Flattened, and then there was also a very thriving black news and magazine ecosystem that also kind of faded after that time period. That had to do with the industry's woes and digitalization and all of that. And in a totally separate way, but it just combined to just lessen the for us bias aspect of black media all around. I think that's changing now because I think the Trump years and What happened in 2020 after George Floyd, I think that it just sort of was a wake-up call and a series of wake-up calls that black people just always get that.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a lot of different things happening at once with that. I mean, I think there's a news side of it, and then there's the entertainment side of it, on TV and in movies in the 90s. There were so many black TV shows”
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“You're kind of like not trying to do that, right? Why do you think that that is it just internet distribution flattened everything out? Do you think is the tenor of our politics? Because to cut against you, you kind of have to understand why it happened in the first place.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was preparing for this interview. I was just thinking about when I was growing up in the sort of late 80s to early 2000s, that window of time before the internet and the internet distribution just upended. Well, there's a reason I'm picking that window. There was a more powerful black media ecosystem at that time. Everything wasn't quite as flattened. And you could just see that there was more culture being produced by black people for black people. And everyone else was invited to participate in it, but it wasn't the point to make everything for everyone. I feel like we now live in a media ecosystem where you have to make everything for everyone. Like everyone is chasing clicks and clout and views.”
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“The same time, very few news organizations get that opportunity. You have to be flashy or the new kid on the block or the cool kid to be able to get that opportunity.”
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“Now, that's how we're thinking about our offline efforts and our partnerships with black media and our other ways of finding audience. Because what you'll sometimes find with particularly some national digital black sites is that for this very reason, some large percentage of their audience is white because of the way that their articles are being discovered. We really, really want to be intentional about our audience. And also by Building really direct relationships with the platforms, honestly, and being partners and running experiments and doing things like that, which some people might, you know, think is getting in bed with the enemy or whatever, but it's also a way of Getting what you want out of your audience.”
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“So, when you're trying to find an audience, the platforms will give you lots of tools if you're an advertiser to segment the audience. But if you're just going for broad reach, everything kind of ends up looking the same. Like this would be my criticism of the media. Is it in particular Facebook and Google search have made virtually every website the same? Like you can replace the banners and logos and you're like, oh, this is all pretty undifferentiated because the algorithmic forces of these two platforms in particular make everything look the same. Do you fight against”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wonder if it okay you just got to market it as opposed to marketing individual stories and hoping them go viral like one of the tensions I see here is you're trying to build a site for a very specific audience and when you measure just traffic those platforms just want you to get everybody somehow and everybody you know those platforms Great at being diverse themselves and how they relate to people like. You can just look at the top stories on Facebook and be like, you know, this isn't everybody, right? It's weird, actually, what consistently goes viral on Facebook.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's on social media. And without it, imagining us totally divorced from that, like how do we even launch? Like it's kind of impossible to think about how a digital... News site would launch without that. I think that the dependence on it, that full measure of dependence on it, that full reliance on it, and that full reliance, I think, on just traffic period is probably the real thing that we're breaking from is really important, but it's still, unfortunately, so important in reaching people. And I don't know how That goes away.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No. I don't think so. I wish, but I don't think it's fully divorced from it. I mean, because when you think about our first week, people aren't putting CapitalBnews.org into their, you know, they're not typing it in. Like, where are they finding us? Where are they seeing anything about us?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We need more people, Nely. It was a blur of a week and we worked so hard to get here. And it was like a reset where it's just like, oh, now we're live. Now we are just going to, now there's like a new version of just working hard. I'm excited.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not an either or, and I think that sometimes they feed each other. It depends on funding too. I mean, we might get a grant for criminal justice coverage, and that will fund national and local criminal justice coverage, right? So that will help us grow our national team and our local teams. But we also kind of fundraised separately for these. So they're not necessarily all part of the same pot of money. And so they're not really the same decision necessarily.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You think about your overall model, right? A bunch of cities in the National Desk, how do you think about, I'm just like in the weeds now, how do you think about growing the national desk versus picking a new city? Because those seem like your different audiences presumably the national audience is a larger total. The cities are, it seems like that's where your emphasis is. So, how do you make the decision between the two?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Funding, talent, I think stories matter. I think this is one of the reasons why we chose Atlanta. It just seemed like the perfect prototype for a Capital B newsroom because of everything that's going on there. You know, we want to be able to make a difference there. When there's news that you're really able to do that.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, we do have a list. One of the primary qualifications for our cities is that there's a large black population. And so you can guess that most of our cities on our list are in the south and the Midwest, but then also DC is on it and Baltimore and New York. But yeah, I mean, you can get, I mean, you can just look in on a population map and just guess what the cities are. New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, Roy. I mean, you know where the black people are. The decision is just figuring out which one is right at the right time.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have a list of targets in mind? Like, I would say you're in Atlanta seems fairly easy to go to Houston. Like, it's right over there. If you have a list of cities like that, or are you picking something that would be even DC? Would you pick DC? Like, how are you making that list?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Want to raise a significant amount of money to fund the next newsroom because local money is important in funding the local newsrooms. And we also have to hire, and hiring is slow and hard. That is also a big part of it. And we do a lot of research. We interview a ton of people. We do preliminary community listening. There's a lot of pre-work that goes into it in addition to the fundraising. So that kind of all has to be done before we launch our next one.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do you decide when to launch the next city? Is there a dollar amount that you have in mind? Is it we've developed enough audience? We have a playbook. We refined it. What's the decision process there?”
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“Think our primary source of revenue will continue to be major gifts and foundation grants, but we're growing our membership base and growing our earn revenue from sponsorships. And the goal is to build up those two. Aren't entirely dependent on foundations and major gifts.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, it's our membership program that you can either pay monthly or for a full year. It's not a subscription. We don't have a paywall. It is a reader donation program that readers can contribute to if they believe in us, believe in our content, and want to help us be free for everyone.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, in the nonprofit, it's a little different. The calculation is, is this objectively important for us to cover? Is there a way to pay for it, either through a grant or through advertising, sponsorship? We feel like everything that we've chosen thus far is objectively important to cover. And I think when it's grant funded, you find someone who shares your values on this and also believes that it's objectively important to cover. And you make it happen.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You think about that kind of expansion. We've worked together when I would pitch an expansion for editorial, I'd have to go somewhere and say we've done some experiments, we've discovered there's an audience here. I'd have to talk to somebody on a sales team, they would have to tell me that they could sell it in some way, one way or the other, to an advertiser. And then we could pay to hire the new people. And then hopefully our bet paid off. The CEO. How are you making those decisions?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it's a big one. And we chose those beats to start because those are the big ones that we feel are kind of the most important to Black Life in America. And we do want to expand. I really want to have a rural issues reporter at some point. We want to do housing and economics, build it out so that we're covering kind of every angle that really matters that we can go deep on. But it really wasn't that hard to figure out the big beats that we wanted to cover.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's going to be four to five reporters to start, and the beats actually mirror the local ones. Criminal justice, politics, education, climate, health.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Feel like I understand a covered strategy for local newsrooms, right? You're going to cover a bunch of local politicians and local decisions and help people advocate for their communities. The national news desk is like, you can pick anything. It's a huge open waterfront. How did you narrow down what you're going to cover on a national desk? How big is a national desk?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The type of news that drives conversation and moves the needle. And doing news like that at a national website also provides a real sort of anchor and a hub for a growing network of local newsrooms. And so it really just made sense to us to build that out as we're growing at the local newsrooms.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really wanted to hit two different levels of need that we saw in the market. So we talked a lot about local news and what's missing. And we talked about the service aspect of what we're trying to do locally. But we also saw something that has often frustrated me and Okodo, which is there's a lot of national news about black people, about the issues that black people face, ambitious investigations, ambitious features that are about black people but for white audiences. And there's not as much news like that for black national audiences. And we really wanted to provide that level of ambition for a national black audience.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really don't think it's as much of attention There is a diversity of political opinion, but there's also a shared cultural interest and desire for news about black people and the issues facing black people that I think overrides those differences. And I think if we're reflecting those differences fairly and just not kind of pretending that Black people in Atlanta or Black people in the country are monolithically believe in Defending the police or what have you, then I think that that's not really that big of a problem. I think there's a tie that binds that's pretty tight.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Split in the audience you mentioned we'll just stick with Atlanta for a second right you've got a bunch of older folks who might be more conservative in some of their views and you've got a bunch of younger folks on college campuses and you got a bunch of people online do you think that you can sell them an idea that this is a new site for all of us inclusive of all black people as opposed to what is kind of very broadly happening in the rest of the political media, which is You have to pick a political party and then you like pick a news site because that's the other way that you could segment an audience, right? You can say I'm making a website for Democrats or liberals or whatever and that is the prevailing trend. You're cutting against that in a different way. How are you thinking about managing that tension?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, I mean, that's why we kind of went with a real beat focus and we were going to cover themes around the metro area and not focus as much on specific neighborhoods and each of our reporters is really going to identify a series of themes that they're going to focus on throughout the area. We can't hit it all, but really try to focus on like where those big themes are playing out throughout the mentor area and cover those big stories.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Atlanta is a big city, right? So when we talk about local news, and you're like, My first market is Atlanta. Atlanta is a huge place. How do you decide what parts of Atlanta are going to take the attention? Is that just for the newsroom? I realize I'm asking you're the CEO and I'm asking a lot of editorial questions, but it's a startup. I feel like these are, you have to have been talking about all this stuff.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, most black people are Democrats, but a lot of black people are lowercase Conservative. That is the thing that will play into our coverage. And I think that one of our kind of core operating principles at Capital B is that in both our coverage and in our internal culture, that we respect the various identities and beliefs of black people in America and understand that there's not just one way to be. I think particularly when we have a young staff that maybe leans further left than Black America at large, that's something that we have to remember, that there's a wide range of political opinions, particularly even within the Democratic Party. But I think that that is something else that our community listening will really help bring to bear that we're talking to a bunch of boomers in Atlanta. They're going to have a”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some point I'm assuming you've run into the notion that merely starting a news site for black people is an inherently political act, right? That's the flip side of the voting thing. You say, I want to get more black people and people of color to vote. And the response is, well, you just want to elect Democrats because there's a one-to-one identity between minorities and Democrats, which I don't think is the case at all. When you frame your coverage, right, I think one of the more surprising revelations of this fast news cycle is actually a lot of black people are more conservative than the progressives are making them out to be. How does that play into your coverage?”
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“Said voting rights are a political issue. They absolutely are, right Just every day, right now, there's another piece of the new cycle where some state Republican Party is saying getting more people to vote is inherently political act.”
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“I really think it depends on what you consider advocacy. And I know that with how polarized our country is, that encouraging people to vote can be considered advocacy, right? But that's, you know, that's the sort of service I'm talking about, like figuring out how to get your voting rights restored if you're an ex-felon or get the child tax credit if you are a non-tax payer or things that are just part of being a citizen that are very hard for some people to access or to understand or to even trust because they seem maybe too good to be true and there's a lot of government mistrust out there. These are just things that help people navigate the world around them, right? Or access benefits of being part of a community and much less advocacy and more access, right? And that's how we're thinking about it.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talked a lot about trust. I feel like the meme sites are really voicey, right? They lead to conclusions when you want to be of service to a community the way you're talking about. You might want to offer people a conclusion or an advocacy step afterwards that you're talking about make an action, take an action. A lot of people say, why don't I trust the media? And it's because of advocacy. It's because of opinion. All the data says that people say they want extremely straight-laced news reporting and then all of the audience data says they do not want that, right? They will chase a filter bubble of their own devising. How are you balancing that when you're inventing a new local news site?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that, look, I think that we should take lessons from it. I think that the thing that we want to do is provide a lot more context to people than those immune sites. Think that we should take lessons from why they're so popular? Is it the way they look? Is it the way they market themselves and improve upon the way that they're delivering the news to people?”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Might be where a chunk of your audience is, but yeah, I think it's about finding the balance, right? In Atlanta, there are these incredibly popular meme sites that give like these local news headlines with pretty much zero context. They have millions of followers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has something in like the mid hundreds, hundred thousands of Instagram followers and then like these meme sites with like local Atlanta headlines will have like a million plus. And so obviously we should be on Instagram as a real market, right? But it's just about finding the balance and figuring out. How to manage being on social media with being in person and making sure like we're not paying attention to the wrong side of social media. It's an audience focus, not a media focus.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean Honestly, it's a combination of less online and more online because we do want to meet people where they are, right? And a lot of black people who on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, in fact, black people over index on those things, you don't want to be stuck in the media bubble on Twitter, but you might want to be on other segments of Twitter.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the challenges with every media organization is Twitter. Reporters are hopelessly addicted to Twitter. It's just a thing that we all have to deal with. Are you hoping to build a less online newsroom? It sounds like you don't want to focus as much on the pressures of social media on a newsroom and you want your reporters out in the world and somehow collecting feedback from people in the real world. Is that something you can measure? Is that something you can mandate? Are you building a system that gets to that goal more directly? Because that seems like one of the hardest challenges of all is stop paying attention to the media bubble on Twitter and start paying attention to real people.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of a dream for them in terms of sourcing, right? To have this kind of front row seat to, one, potential stories because what this brings back to the newsroom is potential sources, potential story ideas that they never would have found out otherwise. And then, you know, feedback that, you know, sometimes we rely only on comments or Twitter, not everybody's on Twitter. Not everyone's going to give feedback on Facebook. And this is a great way to hear about the work”
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“Make an action or take an action or better understand how to navigate their community. These are the things that we are hoping to use to tailor our content to the audience, to build trust with the audience, to create a new source that people actually want and need. And so in addition to traffic, in addition to just like building an audience, we want to actually make content that's useful. And that's going to be a really important metric for us moving forward as well to prove out what we're actually trying to do here, which is have community-informed news.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We obviously care about audience. We don't have a very high publishing cadence, so we don't have enormous expectations for our audience. But we want to make sure that people are, obviously, we want to make sure that people are consuming our work, but we also want to make sure that we are, particularly in our local newsrooms, that we are connecting with our audience in a meaningful way. This is an important metric for us. All of our local newsrooms are going to have community engagement editors whose job is to actually in-person interface with black people in our coverage area, going to community meetings, running community meetings, canvassing neighborhoods, returning to those neighborhoods to talk to the same people, asking our readers if an article helped them to”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What are the metrics you're looking at for success? Right? So you've launched the two. It's only been a week, but what are the numbers you're looking at to say, okay, this is working, we can keep investing here versus we got to change somehow.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All hands on deck. But ultimately, the plan is that I'm not. And, you know. Simone Spashman is her editorial director. She's an amazing editor. I trust her implicitly. And I can just. Proud of the work that we're doing and do work that supports that work. That's the ultimate plan. And I feel good about that.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was because of the SVP editor in chief hybrid experience at Vox, which was my role when I left Vox, I was overseeing both the business and the editorial functions. It's really two jobs. And what I wanted to make sure of at Capital B was that that job was split. I did feel like at this point in my career if I was being honest with myself, it's kind of where I was leaning more towards and hiring an editorial lead just made more sense to me. And, you know, right now we're in startup mode. I'm still involved in editorial.”
2022-02-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You were the editor in chief. You had a very editorial role. You were also the senior vice president. But it's different than what you're doing now. Why choose the CEO role? You're co-founder. You can pick any structure you want. Why'd you pick the more business role?”
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