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WORD: LIFE Panel | The Architects: A Conversation Between Editors

Columbia Journalism School · Mar 6, 2024 · published to YouTube

Moderator: Jelani Cobb Panelists: Bakari Kitwana Kierna Mayo Scott Poulson-Bryant Mimi Valdés Context: Hip hop magazines were never just music titles, chronicling rappers, DJs, breakers and graf artists. Their pages were also filled with political commentary, fashion, policy, deeply reported pieces on community and also, yes, music coverage, including the hotly debated music reviews section. Conducting this editorial symphony every month was the responsibility of the editor-in-chief, who managed the staff, oversaw finances and steered the outlet's reputation in the streets and within the industry with assistance from the rest of the masthead. Being EIC was a high-wire role that called for regalness and a touch of ruthlessness—often from journalists who were barely 30. This conversation will revisit an era when the hip hop conversation was closer to the community that created it,

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