A publisher serving Latinx communities in a small city told us theyd surveyed residents before launching. The town is nearly 20% undoc so they planned to cover ICE raids++. Ppl said they wanted stories abt daily life.

Audiences of color want to read abt more than their traumas. https://twitter.com/MattKrupnick/status/1356665199772635138

Another publisher serving Indian-American communities launched a new platform. Why shouldn’t Indians write about cooking or gardening or muscle cars? Whatever they write can and will be an Indian topic.

Another publisher told us the power of community-based journalism is “writing our own history.”

This troubling thread underscores the need to look to local journalism expressly for and led by POC for nuanced, wide ranging coverage of the whole lives of POC.