The 19th*, staffed by mostly women of color, is teaching legacy media a lesson, angelinachapin reports
Photo: Provided When Errin Haines first heard about Breonna Taylor’s death in mid-May, she knew the story deserved more attention. At the time, there was only local media coverage on how Louisville policemen had broken into Taylor’s home while she lay in bed, fired more than 20 bullets, and killed her.
Since the website hadn’t officially launched yet, the article ran that night in the Washington Post, with “The 19th” beside Haines’s byline. Her story prompted a conversation about gender bias in police shootings and is part of the reason “Say Her Name” is now chanted in streets throughout America. She had already been fundraising by playing “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” within her network to find donors . A friend of a friend helped set up a meeting with Kathryn Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter-in-law, who agreed to invest $1 million Craig Newmark donated $500,000 after Ramshaw sent him a cold email, and when she thought about delaying the launch by a year when her funding dropped during the pandemic, he and Murdoch threw in an extra combined half million to keep her afloat.
She and Zamora wanted their workplace culture to reflect the same values as the 19th*’s journalism. They raised enough money to offer staff gold-star benefits like six months of fully paid family leave, which Ramshaw believes is a first for any newsroom, and four months of fully paid caregiver leave. “Women fall off that escalator to the top when they are in the sandwich generation of having small kids and caring for elderly parents,” she said.
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