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WORD: LIFE Panel | Code Read: The Ethics of Hip Hop Journalism

Columbia Journalism School · Feb 26, 2024 · published to YouTube

Moderator: Jeff Chang Panelists: Davey D Andre Gee Karen Good-Marable Akiba Solomon In the preface to “The Vibe History of Hip Hop,” Danyel Smith writes “Hip hop writers” are often accused of being “too close” to the music, to the artists, and to the scene. Hell yes, we’re close to it. We love this shit. The proximity between author and subject has long been a topic of discussion in journalism circles and institutions, most notably in Janet Malcolm’s book, The Journalist And the Murderer. For many hip hop journalists that dynamic is accentuated: does it blur the relationship from a professional exchange to one that’s more personal and potentially compromised? And then there's the money: the role of advertisers in coverage as well as more explicit pay-to-play, as practiced by Ozone magazine, which literally charged artists to be on the cover. And how has the inclusion of blogger

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