The Happy Hour Episode 3: A NECESSARY CONVERSATION Part 2
Diversifying our newsroom for the future
Welcome to our first Happy Hour episode of the fall semester! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on the relationship between the SF State Black Student Union and the Golden Gate Xpress, social media slactivism, and how we experience reporting from certain identity roles.
Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in our second part of a conversation with Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences.
We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action.
Listen to part 1 here.
Find this weekās stories and background below:
Niaās stories:
Black entrepreneurs make way for racial equity in cannabis industry (link)
Black Invincibility: The Myth (link)
Whitneyās stories:
BSU fundraiser unites campus groups to support Black businesses (link)
Black Residents United in Housing hosts its first meeting of the semester to welcome back students (link)
Background research (optional!):
SFSU Resource Guide, collected by the BSU (link)
Fighting inequity in the face of COVID-19 (link)
Gater article from 1967 (link)
āWe still have a long way to go,ā say 1968 SF State activists (link)
The fight for Ethnic Studies continues (link)
Promises unfulfilled for College of Ethnic Studies (link)
Bitch Mediaās Editor in Chief Evette Dionne tweets about identity roles (link)
Overcoming systemic racism begins in our own newsrooms (link)

Malakai is a senior journalism student at SFSU and the Editor-in-Chief of Xpress Magazine. She is in her last semester after finishing a minor in International...

shaylyn martos (she/her) works to provide better representation of LGBTQ+ people in media, and produces stories that address possible solutions to larger,...
Nia Coats is a San Francisco Native and a 4th year journalism student at San Francisco State. Her beat is mainly telling Black stories along with arts...

Whitney Papalii is a student at San Francisco University, pursuing a BA in Journalism (Online/Print) and a minor in Women and Gender Studies. This is her...
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