{{short description|Online newspaper based in Chicago Illinois USA}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Triibe | image = TheTRiiBE.png | caption = | type = online newspaper | format = | founded = {{start date and age|2017}} | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Morgan Elise Johnson, Tiffany Walden | publisher = | editor = Tiffany Walden | language = | political_position = | circulation = | readership = | publishing_city = Chicago, Illinois | publishing_country = United States | oclc = | ISSN = | website = {{official URL}} }}
'''''The TRiiBE''''' is an African-American online news and digital media company based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2017 by Morgan Elise Johnson and Tiffany Walden, along with web developer David Elutilo.<ref name="Stevens 2018">{{cite web | last=Stevens | first=Heidi | title=Triibe gives black Chicago a more balanced voice through its stories | website=chicagotribune.com | date=2018-02-26 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-life-stevens-monday-the-triibe-black-chicago-0226-story.html | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> In 2019, they published a print version of their TRiiBE Guide, an annual guide to Black Chicago.<ref name="tg">{{cite web |title=2019 TRiiBE Guide to Black Chicago |url=https://thetriibe.com/the-triibe-guide-to-black-chicago/ |website=The TRiiBE |access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref>
The site is a digital media platform that combines original reporting with "documentary, creative writing and photography" to cover the stories of the Black community in Chicago.<ref name="Stevens 2018" /> They have collaborated with ''Chicago Reader'' on a multimedia series called ''Block Beat'', which features Chicago artists and the neighborhoods they cite as influences.<ref name="Stevens 2018" /> They have also created ''Another Life'', a documentary series in which Johnson and Walden follow people managing the aftermath of lives lost to gun violence.<ref name="Mustufa 2017">{{cite web | last=Mustufa | first=Asraa | title='Another Life' docu-series portrays the trauma of gun violence | website=Chicago Reporter | date=2017-07-16 | url=https://www.chicagoreporter.com/another-life-docu-series-portrays-the-trauma-of-gun-violence/ | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref>
== History == Walden and Johnson were friends and sorority sisters who attended Northwestern University and wanted to create media that reflected the Chicago they were familiar with, and which didn't just view Black neighborhoods as sources of crime and poverty.<ref name="Medill 2018">{{cite web | title=Finding Their Triibe - Medill Magazine - Northwestern University | website=Medill | date=2018-01-31 | url=https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2018/finding-their-triibe.html | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref><ref name="Clark 2018">{{cite web | last=Clark | first=Anna | title=The Triibe roams a Chicago overlooked by legacy media | website=Columbia Journalism Review | date=2018-05-02 | url=https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/the-triibe-chicago.php | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> They originally created the publication for Black millennials, but later expanded their mission to include Black Chicagoans of all ages.<ref name="WBEZ Chicago 2017">{{cite web | title=New Digital Platform Aims To Reshape Black Narratives | website=WBEZ Chicago | date=2017-07-25 | url=https://www.wbez.org/stories/new-digital-platform-aims-to-reshape-black-narratives/a02b6d10-50b4-448a-8f12-4a404be98909 | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> In 2018, Walden, was selected as one of Poynter's 2018 class for the Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media.<ref name="Poynter 2018">{{cite web | title=Poynter, NABJ announce the 2018 diversity leadership class | website=Poynter | date=2018-10-31 | url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2018/poynter-nabj-announce-the-2018-diversity-leadership-class/ | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> Morgan Johnson made the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 media list in 2019.<ref name="Forbes 2019">{{cite web | title=Morgan Johnson | website=Forbes | date=2019-08-14 | url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/morgan-johnson/ | access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> In March 2021, both Walden and Johnson were featured on the cover of Chicago Magazine's “The New Power 30” issue.<ref name="Chicago Magazine 2021">{{cite web | title=Chicago Magazine, The New Power 30 | website=Chicago Magazine | date=2021-02-17 | url=https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/march-2021/new-power-30/ | access-date=2021-04-08}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website}}
{{African American press}}
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