Lara Witt

2 months ago | editorandpublisher.com | Lara Witt |Diane Sylvester

Posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:00 am Prism’s mission and vision was to report from the communities that we’re from. It makes the journalism more authentic and enriching. There’s a big difference between a piece reported by someone who has no clue and just dropped in to do the reporting versus someone who understands cultural nuances and where they are from.” Prism, an award-winning independent nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color, takes a transformative approach to reporting....

Nov 13, 2024 | prismreports.org | Maya Schenwar |Lara Witt |Lara WittEditor-in-Chief

This article was co-published with Truthout. In journalism circles, we often speak about our work in abstract ideals. Transparency. Accountability. Democracy. Truth. All of these ideals are urgently important. And yet, in this precipitous moment, as we watch an overt fascist prepare to ascend back into the White House, abstract concepts are not at the top of our minds as journalism leaders.

Nov 13, 2024 | truthout.org | Maya Schenwar |Lara Witt

In journalism circles, we often speak about our work in abstract ideals. Transparency. Accountability. Democracy. Truth. All of these ideals are urgently important. And yet, in this precipitous moment, as we watch an overt fascist prepare to ascend back into the White House, abstract concepts are not at the top of our minds as journalism leaders.

Nov 7, 2024 | prismreports.org | Lara Witt |Lara WittEditor-in-Chief

The U.S. voted this week to usher in a second presidency for Donald Trump, who won by a significant margin despite polls and mainstream media pundits saying the election would be “too close to call.” Fascism is here because neoliberalism and capitalism opened the door to it. When President Joe Biden was elected four years ago, it was in response to an overtly fascist and racist Trump. We had a raging pandemic and anti-science disinformation fomenting death and despair.

Oct 8, 2024 | therealnews.com | Lara Witt |Negin Owliaei

This story originally appeared in Prism and Truthout on Oct. 7, 2024 as part of the Movement Media Alliance’s Media Against Apartheid & Displacement (MAAD). A bill currently making its way through Congress could kill independent media outlets like ours. HR 9495 is a bipartisan piece of legislation, ostensibly about allowing U.S. nationals wrongfully detained abroad to postpone their tax deadlines. The bill sounds relatively innocuous.