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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 My whole life, I wanted to do the stories that weren't being covered elsewhere.
00:07 Whose voice are we not including?
00:09 Who else can we bring into this conversation?
00:11 Black voters!
00:12 [CHEERS]
00:13 Black voters!
00:14 People on the margins, that's what I wanted to cover.
00:16 And they were not the stories that were being written.
00:19 What we're seeing is that the pandemic is absolutely political for women.
00:23 Women deserve a destination news platform that is just for them.
00:27 We're launching this week.
00:30 We've had so much interest in republishing already.
00:33 Like the universe is responding to this mission and vision people.
00:37 This can be the catalyst for reset for other news organizations.
00:41 It's going to change the game so much.
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00:44 There were people on our team who were hurt.
00:47 We should cover LGBTQ issues, but no foresight about an actual trans person on staff.
00:53 We're doing too much.
00:54 It's like, how are we going to have an impact?
00:56 We're such a tiny team.
00:57 If we fall into the same patterns as other news organizations, are we really that different?
01:03 Erin Haynes, editor-at-large for The 19th.
01:06 Black Lives Matter is a story that Black journalists are also living through.
01:12 It is exhausting.
01:13 Robbie Wayne has got to go!
01:15 It's going to start the ticking clock of what this could do to Roe.
01:19 It was a pretty incredible article.
01:21 People need to be challenged to think about outside of their experiences.
01:26 We want this to be a real news operation and we're not.
01:28 It may be a turning point for our organization.
01:30 [MUSIC]