Ten Black newspapers have joined forces to create a platform to “amplify the Black experience” by reporting, collecting, and sharing stories about real people in Black communities.  

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According to The Tennessee Tribune, World in Black publishes content from New York Amsterdam News, The Atlanta Voice, Houston Defender Network, The Washington Informer, The Dallas Weekly, The Afro, Michigan Chronicle, The Seattle Medium, The Sacramento Observer and St. Louis American, along with original content.  

Nick Charles, Word in Black’s managing director, said the platform’s primary goal is to help the newspapers survive. “There are over 230 Black-owned newspapers still in this country—here we have 10 of them that still put out a hard copy every week—and what most of them needs is a real smooth and efficient transition to digital products,” he said.  

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Word in Black has funding from the Local Media Association, the Walton Family Foundation, the Facebook Journalism Project, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Google News Initiative and the Local Media Consortium. In the future, they plan on pursuing more funding and digital tools.  

“[These] 10 different publishers sometimes have different mindsets, different politics, and they live in different parts of the country. So people in Texas don’t have the same ideas about a lot of things that people in New York may have,” Charles said. “But their affection and love for communities are what binds them. Collaboration is going on because people realize that to survive and meet our mission as journalists, we have to band together.”