---
title: "African American News Sources: A Year of Turmoil and Opportunity"
description: "The story about how African American-oriented news media coped last year was a difficult one at best."
date: "2013-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Emily Guskin"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Amy Mitchell"
    job_title: "Former Director, Journalism Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amy-mitchell/"
  - name: "Mark Jurkowitz"
    job_title: "Senior Writer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/mark-jurkowitz/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2013/03/19/african-american-news-sources-a-year-of-turmoil-and-opportunity/"
categories:
  - "Audio, Radio & Podcasts"
  - "Black Americans"
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "News Platforms & Sources"
  - "Newspapers"
  - "Race & Ethnicity"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
  - "Television"
---

# African American News Sources: A Year of Turmoil and Opportunity