Media 2070 blog
Story Care for Centering Black Women Victims and Survivors
Black women deserve reporting that centers their humanity, not the violence done to them. These story care practices offer newsrooms a better way to report on femicide, domestic violence and the experiences of Black women and survivors.
Defining Black Narrative Power
Ida B. Wells showed how storytelling can challenge systems of power. Media 2070 reflects on Black Narrative Power and the importance of Black-owned media, independent journalism and cultural power in shaping our collective future.
Media 2070 Enters a New Chapter as an Independent Initiative
After five years of building toward media reparations, Media 2070 enters a new chapter as an independent initiative sponsored by Allied Media Projects, with more autonomy to expand its research, organizing and Black Future Newsstand work.
Reparative Journalism Archive: A Sanctuary of Black Memory
Media 2070’s Reparative Journalism Archive preserves Black stories and cultural memory while creating space to confront media harm, reclaim storytelling traditions and imagine futures rooted in repair.
Front Porches, Trail Rides and Stories of Black Futures
In Houston, Black Future Newsstand brings people together around front porches, storytelling, youth media and cultural memory — imagining the information infrastructure Black communities deserve.
Five Years of Media 2070: Repairing Media Harm & Reimagining Our Future
Five years after its founding, Media 2070 reflects on the journey from a visionary essay to a growing movement for media reparations, with work spanning storytelling, education, policy, and collective action.
Media 2070 Enters a New Chapter as an Independent Initiative
Media 2070 enters a new chapter with an immersive Los Angeles exhibition that brings together reparative storytelling, Black media, art and technology to imagine what repair can look and feel like.
Reflecting on the Healing Power of Storytelling
What does it look like when storytelling becomes part of the work of repair? Media 2070’s Reparative Journalism guide brings together lessons from the video series to help journalists, educator and communities think about healing, reckoning and narrative power.
Celebrating Storytelling During Black Narrative Power Month
Black Narrative Power Month brings Black media-makers together to honor storytelling traditions, celebrate our collective power, and imagine futures rooted in resistance, care, love, beauty and abundance.
Reparative Journalism: The Healing Power Of Storytelling
What happens when journalism treats storytelling as a path toward healing? This latest Reparative Journalism video looks at community-rooted reporting and the power of reclaiming our own storytelling traditions.
The Juneteenth Story Gives Us the Gift of Remembrance
Juneteenth invites us to remember a story of struggle and liberation, and to consider how storytelling, media-making and journalism can help us hold onto those stories and imagine what freedom can look like.
Philanthropy, Racism & the Debate Over Journalism’s Future
As journalism faces a reckoning over its history of racial harm, philanthropists and news organizations have a chance to rethink where resources go and what a truly equitable media future looks like.
What Journalists Can Learn from Global Repair Movements
What can journalism learn from global movements for repair? Media 2070 explores truth commissions, LandBack, and Black reparations to imagine more healing and accountable approaches to journalism.
We Need Black Narrative Power to Win Media Reparations
Black Narrative Power is resistance, care, love, beauty and abundance. Media 2070 explores how these forces can help build the collective power needed to win media reparations.
Black Future Newsstand: Harnessing Black Technology and Media
Black Future Newsstand brings Black-owned media, storytelling, technology, and visions for liberation together in an immersive installation imagining a future where Black people control their own stories.
Media 2070: Three Years of Fighting for Media Reparations
Media 2070 reflects on three years of organizing, education, storytelling, and collective action to advance media reparations and imagine a future rooted in Black liberation.
Journalism’s Violent History Requires Repair
Journalism has a long history of harming Black and other communities of color. The Reparative Journalism Project explores how the industry can confront that history and create pathways toward healing and repair.
Diagnosing the Media System: Media 2070 Launches a College Course
Media 2070 launches its first college course, “Diagnosing the Media System,“ exploring the history of racism in U.S. media and imagining what reparative journalism could look like.
Powerful Town Hall Spotlights Media 2070’s Award-Winning Documentary
Media 2070 brings supporters of its award-winning documentary Black in the Newsroom together for a national town hall focused on healing, care, and building a media system free of anti-Blackness.