President Barack Obama Brings Firsts for Black Press

Barack Obama’s election as president is prompting major changes in the nation’s black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences, according to Politico.

• Essence will have a full-time White House reporter for the first time
• Black Entertainment Television is scrapping its usual fare of videos and sitcoms for a four-hour live broadcast of Obama’s swearing-in
• Ebony magazine will add a White House reporter
• Jet magazine, will have a weekly two-page Washington report in every issue

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