The Culture Journalist is a podcast about the wild west of culture, counterculture, and media in the year 2020. Think of it as your guide to understanding the arts, politics, and the anxieties of everyday life through the lens of culture reporting—hosted by Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick, two freelance journalists from opposite sides of the country.
We’re kicking off the pod this week with VICE senior writer Kristin Corry, a New York-based culture journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of music and race. When protests against police violence and institutional racism erupted across the country earlier this Spring, Kristin wrote a powerful essay called “The Music Industry Fails Black People Every Day,” dissecting the ways in which majority-white institutions profit off of Black culture while under-compensating Black creatives and “valuing us as entertainment instead of people.” We spoke to Kristin about the overt and covert ways that systemic racism makes itself felt across the industry, the role of music in the protest movement, and how underrepresentation in newsrooms has shaped her approach to covering Black music.
Read more by Kristin
Breland’s Ambitious Country Rap is More than a Trend
The 2010s Were the Decade When Black Protest Music Went Mainstream
Kristin does not have a Twitter (smart!), but you can keep up with her writing here.
The load is getting heavier to carry, with Kristin Corry