Without ‘Black Twitter,’ there would be less coverage of stories important to African Americans

“Black Twitter,” an unofficial group of African American Twitter users, has emerged as an important force in news media, Katie Ferguson writes, pushing news organizations to cover stories important to the community. Former manager of news and journalism at Twitter Mark Luckie says: “If Black Twitter didn’t continue to exist in the way it does now, you’d actually see a decline of the black press because it’s so difficult to source these stories if you don’t have the resources, which a lot of the black press suffers from.”

+ Earlier: Last summer, The Los Angeles Times added a beat reporter to cover Black Twitter and other diverse online communities

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