Janelle Harris Dixon is a narrative journalist, copywriter, and content strategist with more than 20 years of experience covering race, culture, equity, and social justice. Her work has appeared in Essence, Ebony, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Smithsonian, and more than 50 other publications. She holds a B.A. from Lincoln University and an M.A. in African American Studies from Temple University.
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The pioneering broadcast journalist on what has changed for Black women in television news since she started -- and the parts of the industry that have changed less than the optics suggest.
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The Essence co-founder on the editorial gap that made the magazine necessary -- and the specific things he wanted to build for Black women readers that no other publication was offering.
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The author and Bravo cast member on the deliberate moves she made to expand from digital media into television -- and what building a personal brand across both formats actually required.
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Significant news stories aren't necessarily guaranteed a space in the annals of public memory -- they're emblazoned there by gifted reporters. Soledad O'Brien is one of those journalistic storytellers who uses human interest pieces to…
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If you live in Any Metropolis, USA, coming out of the neighborhood coffee shop with a frappuccino and a cheese danish for less than $20 can be a study in quantitative economics. So buying an…
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There are some TV personalities who, perhaps unbeknownst to them, become "friends" to their fans and viewers. You know how it is -- the rational part of you realizes they couldn't pick you out of…
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"Mogul" in its present overuse, is like the retired boxer of dictionary words: it used to pack a lot of punch, but now it's gotten kind of flaccid and nondescript. Cathy Hughes doesn't care much…
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If you were a black girl in the late 1990s threading together the elements of a fabulous life, you undoubtedly read Honey. If you were a black girl in the late 1990s who aspired to…
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By day, Dominic Chu is the smiling, now familiar face delivering the latest news on stock, bond and currency markets, but, generally speaking, he is a master of career reinvention. After a stint as a…
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Whether interviewing a world leader or hurling water balloons at her co-hosts, that's Tamron Hall's signature move: journalistic dexterity. As a co-host on Today, the face of her weekday MSNBC program, NewsNation with Tamron Hall, and…
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