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Lara Witt
Verified
Editorial Director, Prism
Philadelphia
Beats
Biography
Lara (she/they) is an award-winning writer and editor. Their journalism career started at the Philadelphia CityPaper and the Philadelphia Daily News. Lara also freelanced for national publications like Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Teen Vogue before joining Wear Your Voice magazine as an editor and reshaping the publication to focus on pop culture and politics through a radical lens centering the voices of LGBTQIA+ Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). As the Editorial Director of Prism, their goal is to provide platforms for marginalized voices and reshape the media landscape altogether.
Race and racism
Content
By Maya Schenwar Verified, Lara Witt Verified|TruthoutVerifiedIn journalism circles, we often speak about our work in abstract ideals. Transparency. Accountability. Democracy. Truth. All of these ideals are urgently important. And yet, in this precipitous moment, as we watch an overt fascist prepare to ascend back into the White House, abstract concepts are not at the top of our minds as journalism leaders.
By Lara Witt Verified, Diane Sylvester|Editor & PublisherVerifiedPosted Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:00 am Prism’s mission and vision was to report from the communities that we’re from. It makes the journalism more authentic and enriching. There’s a big difference between a piece reported by someone who has no clue and just dropped in to do the reporting versus someone who understands cultural nuances and where they are from.” Prism, an award-winning independent nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color, takes a transformative approach to reporting....
By Lara Witt Verified, Lara WittEditor-in-Chief|PrismVerifiedThe U.S. voted this week to usher in a second presidency for Donald Trump, who won by a significant margin despite polls and mainstream media pundits saying the election would be “too close to call.” Fascism is here because neoliberalism and capitalism opened the door to it. When President Joe Biden was elected four years ago, it was in response to an overtly fascist and racist Trump. We had a raging pandemic and anti-science disinformation fomenting death and despair.
Company Info
Prism
Prism is an award-winning, POC-led, independent, nonprofit news outlet, reporting from the ground up and at the intersections of injustice. Follow us on social media @prismreports on all platforms.
Oakland, California, United States
Founded: 2019