It’s really no wonder that there has been this scattering to the winds of people on social media now, as if they didn’t need another reason to migrate…
Read more How to Give Neurotic Losers the Main Character TreatmentTwenty years ago, MySpace and Facebook ushered in an inspired age of social media. Today, the sticky parables of online life are inescapable: Connection is a convenience as…
Read more Social Media Swallowed Gen Z. This Film Shows Exactly HowFifty-four Academy Awards and 267 nominations. That’s the sort of concrete impact the Black List has had since launching in 2005 as Hollywood insiders’ go-to index of emerging…
Read more The Black List Upended the Film Industry. The Book World Is NextNearly every survey of the podcast industry in 2024 agrees on one point: Chat podcasts are king. As video rises in popularity (33 percent of US podcast listeners…
Read more Chat Podcasts Rule the Market—and Always WillAngie Nwandu launched The Shade Room in 2014 as a side hustle. Today, that side hustle—which grew from an Instagram-only celebrity tabloid into a media company with a…
Read more The Shade Room Founder Is Ready to Dial Down the ShadeOn the subject of money and ownership. Earlier this year, following the cancellation of several Black TV shows, you wrote, “studios and streamers no longer care about loyalty…
Read more This Digital Archivist Believes Hollywood’s ‘Competition Era’ Is OverAmbition is a curse in the arena of high finance. At the prestigious London investment bank Pierpoint, which doubles as the backdrop for the Gen Z banking drama…
Read more The Creators of ‘Industry’ Know Banking Is a Rigged GameDrew Afualo is never at a loss for words. On the topic of idiot men who get a rise out of shaming women online—nitpicking them over their weight,…
Read more Drew Afualo Will Never Stop Making Fun of Misogynist MenAt times, the effects of it feel uncontainable. This is the third election cycle in the US—2016, 2020, 2024—where social media is going to have played a really…
Read more Elon Musk Couldn’t Beat Him. AI Just MightThat’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…
Read more The Studio Executive Who Wants Hollywood to Get Real About Bad StorytellingIs that how you see yourself—as a newsfluencer? I’m a journalist first, but there are people who fall under that category. Influencers aren’t a bad thing, necessarily. I…
Read more The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter Believes Journalism Can Survive Influencers
