Episode Details

Water price hikes, the end of federal relief; what’s driving houselessness and food insecurity in 2023, and what’s life like for pregnant, LGBTQ and trans people in Ron DeSantis’s Florida? Our monthly Meet the BIPOC Press roundtable looks at the “undercover stories” likely to dominate the year ahead. How will our partners be reporting the stories that others don’t? Laura is joined by Mitra Kalita, the publisher of Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter based in Queens, New York, and the co-founder of URL Media, a network of Black and Brown community news outlets; Alexandra Martinez, Senior Reporter with Prism, whose reporting on such topics as immigration and the affordable housing crisis also appears in VICE, CNN, and other outlets; and Malak Silmi, the local government reporter for Outlier Media, a Detroit-based service journalism organization with a mission to empower Detroit residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable for longstanding problems. What are some of their stories?

• Coming up on CUNY TV
• Recently aired on CUNY TV