It’s an interesting hybrid: senior justice writer for the New York Daily News and news commentator for Los Angeles-based The Young Turks.
TYT’s crowdfunded hiring of Shaun King was announced Dec. 28. The interview above, conducted by Francis Maxwell, was taped in New York immediately following the U.S. election and gives a good preview of the kind of matters King will be commenting on.
At the New York tabloid, King has been a lighting rod. In a year-end review of feedback received from readers, the paper summed it up this way:
With his proud advocacy for Black Lives Matter, King got juices flowing.
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