Vice News’ Alexis Johnson Talks Being A Black Woman In Journalism And Her New Special On Britney Griner’s Imprisonment

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022

Despite women making up more than half of US newsrooms,only 13% of them are Black.

This is not lost on Alexis Johnson.

The Vice News correspondent said she’s been hyperaware of her identity since the day she decided to become a journalist. After graduating with her master’s in media studies and production from Temple University in 2017, she headed out to West Virginia for

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