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THE ATLANTA VOICE — Timeless editions of Ebony featured some of the biggest stars in Black America, including issues covered by Diana Ross, Sidney Poitier, as well as President & first lady Barack & Michelle Obama.
The current media landscape is hardly conducive to launching a publication. Ad-funded journalism has sharply declined. Digital subscriber bases for newspapers and magazines have proved hard to increase. And that’s not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, which has crushed fledgling print and digital outfits. And yet Michele Ghee, who’s been tapped to relaunch iconic Black magazines Ebony and Jet, said she’s up for the challenge. She is taking over as chief executive after the publications’ purchase out of bankruptcy by former NBA player Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman and his family. For...