In late June, NJ.com journalist Tennyson Donyea’s Twitter thread and essay about his experiences trying to pitch and cover Black culture went viral. “Black journalists can’t breathe and it’s become my mental health hell,” he wrote.
One of the most serious limitations preventing Donyea from chronicling Black life and culture in New Jersey?
His editor telling him to remember he was writing for white audiences.
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