African Americans and Digital Media
African Americans use the internet for more than just social media. Instead, several African American online-only news publications are springing up left and right. Take for example, the Huffington Post's Black Voices page. Similar to the HuffPost main page, Huff Post Black Voices has opinion articles, up-to-date wire stories, etc. geared towards a predominately African American audience. According to the 2013 State of Media Report from the Pew Research Center, HuffPost's Black Voices page garnered an average monthly audience from October through December 2012 of 2.4 million people. Similar Black news websites include theGrio and The Root.
However, news sites are not the only places African Americans go online for their source of news. Check out this detailed chart of unique visitors to popular African American websites. According to this chart, several African Americans frequent popular celebrity and entertainment news websites like Mediatakeout.com, Bossip.com, MadameNoire.com, and the YBF.com.
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2013 State of the Media
However, news sites are not the only places African Americans go online for their source of news. Check out this detailed chart of unique visitors to popular African American websites. According to this chart, several African Americans frequent popular celebrity and entertainment news websites like Mediatakeout.com, Bossip.com, MadameNoire.com, and the YBF.com.
Source:
2013 State of the Media