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Lauren Williams (journalist)
Lauren Williams is an American journalist. She previously worked as an editor at ''The Root'' and ''Mother Jones'' and joined '' Vox'' in 2014. Williams left the organization in the role of editor-in-chief in 2021. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit news organization ''Capital B''. Career Williams joined ''The Root'' as an associate editor in 2010. She was promoted to deputy editor in December 2011 and worked in that role for 2.5 years. She later worked as a story editor at ''Mother Jones'' before she was hired at ''Vox''. Williams joined ''Vox'' as managing editor in 2014 two months after it launched. She was named executive editor in 2017 and nine months later she was promoted to editor-in-chief, taking over for Ezra Klein, and also held the duties of senior vice president. During her tenure she oversaw Vox.com's business operations and editorial departments, the YouTube channel, a slate of podcasts, and its television programming. She departed the organization in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Root (magazine)
''The Root'' is an African American-oriented online magazine. It was launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham. History It was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group. In 2015, Graham Holdings sold ''The Root'' to Univision Communications. The site was subsequently re-launched under the Kinja platform used by other Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media) websites. GMG was later succeeded by G/O Media as owner of ''The Root''. In July 2017, the blog ''Very Smart Brothas'', co-founded by Damon Young and Panama Jackson, became a vertical of ''The Root''. Danielle Belton was editor-in-chief at ''The Root'' between 2017 and 2021, when she was appointed editor of HuffPost. On April 14, 2021, it was announced that Vanessa De Luca had been appointed editor-in-chief. Since April 2021 ''The Root'' has seen substantial staff turnover with 15 out of the 16 full-time staffers resigning following internal tensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |