Paulette Brown Hinds, Ph.D When Kathy and Benoit Malphettes moved to Riverside in 2008 to spend their retirement years relaxing in the inland heat, little did they know they would become the center of creative activity as portraitists for the Black Voice News and IE Voice. After turning their guest room into a studio they […]
Author Archives: Dr. Paulette Brown-HInds
Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds is founder of Voice Media Ventures, publisher of Black Voice News, a Stanford University JSK Sr Journalism Fellow, and an advocate for community media. As second generation publisher of Black Voice News (BVN), Paulette is transforming the half century old weekly print outlet into a solutions-oriented data journalism and justice-focused community news organization. She is leading the transformation to data reporting through two BVN projects: Mapping Black California and DaHUB. Structured within a community mapping framework, Mapping Black California, encourages community collaboration around data and information by bringing together community media, community based organizations, and educational institutions. And as a JSK Journalism Fellow she is working on an information project to make solutions-focused data reporting accessible to smaller news organizations serving California’s diverse communities.
