Back in 2016, we published a well-received article showcasing ‘8 African-American Tech Journalists You Should Know‘. Eight years later we are updating this list to highlight today’s top voices covering everything from AI, software, venture capital, and early-stage tech founders.
This time around we have expanded our list and included Black Brits and reporters carving out their niche in Africa.
Our goal isn’t only to amplify black storytellers in tech. It stands to reason that founders should be across journalists and their beats because getting media coverage is one of the most effective strategies to cross-promote (for free) your startup venture. One of the best ways to get customers (or investors for that matter) is if people know you exist, right? Media coverage boosts visibility, credibility, and brand awareness.
Below are 10 journalists telling stories about Black techies. However, this certainly isn’t a definitive list— there are several outstanding technology reporters we haven’t included. So, feel free to add to the list on our comments page
Dominic-Madori Davis
Dominic-Madora Davis is a senior reporter at TechCrunch, and co-host of FOUND, the TechCrunch podcast where Davis interviews founders about their lives and professional journeys. After nearly a three-year stint as a reporter at Business Insider, where she created the “Black Woman’s Guide to Venture Capital Fundraising”, Davis began as a senior reporter for TechCrunch in 2022. Her writing particularly highlights important issues including diversity and equity in VC funding. Since joining TechCrunch, she has amassed more than one million readers, and generated more than five million impressions across LinkedIn and Twitter with her work.
Kunbi Tinuoye
Award-winning British-born journalist, social entrepreneur and Cambridge University alumnus, Kunbi Tinuoye, formerly at the BBC, is the founder of tech news site UrbanGeekz, a technology, business and science site serving people of color. Tinuoye is a key player in the Atlanta startup ecosystem, and was recognized by CrunchBase as one of ’25 Black Entrepreneurs making waves’. She was a former correspondent for NBC’s theGrio.com and as an international writer her work has been published in The Daily Mail, London’s Evening Standard, Ebony.com and The Voice newspaper. Tinuoye’s latest venture is Geekz Ventures, a pre-accelerator for underrepresented entrepreneurs, now in its first cohort.
Michael Berhane
British-Eritrean entrepreneur, Michael Berhane is CEO at POCIT (People of Color in Tech), a careers and media platform empowering Black and Brown people in tech. POCIT has been featured in Product Hunt, TechCrunch and Blavity, with partners and clients that include Netflix, Amazon and the New York Times. Berhane has been recognized by the Financial Times’ “top 100 BAME technologists in the UK”, and was named the African Diaspora 2019 Young Business Leader. He is also the cohost of the Techis podcast, part of the Hubspot podcast network, which regularly features in the top 20 Apple podcast charts.
Mirtha Donastorg
Mirtha Donastorg spent two years as a senior reporter and HBCU Innovation Editor at The Plug, and began a new role at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an Economy and Business Reporter in 2023. She worked previously as an associate producer of the CNN Digital Global Programming team. In her new role at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she covers Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and business.
Alan Henry, PMP
Featured in UrbanGeekz ‘8 African-American Tech Journalists You Should Know‘ back in 2016, Alan Henry is currently Special Projects Editor at WIRED, a Conde Nast publication that illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives – from culture to business. In this role he particularly commissions projects to engage traditionally overlooked and underserved audiences. He is now the author of his critically acclaimed book ‘Seen, Heard & Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized’, a book that unlocks the real tools for career success and work satisfaction for anyone feeling undermined or marginalized at their job. He was previously the Smarter Living editor at The New York Times, and before that the editor in chief of the productivity and lifestyle blog, Lifehacker.
Will Lucus
Will Lucas is the founder and CEO of A William Lucas Company, which is home to several tech, media, and real estate businesses. He is also a brand manager for AfroTech, one of the largest Black tech digital platforms, and an organizer and programmer for TEDx Toledo. His many businesses include Creadio, a creative production agency, and TolHouse, a private, Members-only social club in Toledo, OH. Among his many accolades include being named TechFunnel’s Top 14 Black Entrepreneurs in Technology, as well as TechCrunch’s 40 Diverse People in Tech Who Made Big Moves. He is also the host of Black Tech Green Money, a podcast that presents the stories of successful Black entrepreneurs and technologists.
Khari Johnson
Khari Johnson is a Senior AI Staff Writer at Conde Nast’s WIRED. He held the same title at VentureBeat for five years, as the first full-time writer dedicated to covering AI. His pieces cover the positive and negative ways AI shapes human lives, writing about power, policy, and noteworthy AI business of government usage. He recently featured on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, talking about the Biden administration’s AI executive order, and how federal agencies can use AI.
Timi Oduse
Based in Abuja, Nigeria, Timi Oduse leads writing for Africa’s largest tech daily, TC Daily newsletter in his role as Senior Editor at TechCabal. Writing at TechCabal for over 130,000 subscribers in over 50 countries, Oduse has also built up content for literary festivals such as the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival Nigeria. He also writes for Entering Tech, a publication for Africans looking to get into tech; and he contributes to bi-weekly Digital Nomads, where he uncovers the lives of African tech successes.
Jared Council
Senior Editor at Forbes, Jared Council formed part of the team recognized as 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series about the 1920 Tulsa Race Massacre. In his gig at Forbes, Council reports and edits stories at the intersection of business and race, and growing the State of Black Entrepreneurship platform, a historical research and data-driven project unveiling decades of overlooked Black business success. Council spent nearly three years before his current Forbes role as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering news and trends in enterprise technology. He is committed to elevating and uplifting Black and Brown professionals in his work.
Talyor N. Lyles
A reporter at IGN Entertainment, Taylor Lynes is an experienced writer and editor specializing in the game and tech industries. With nearly three years at IGM under her belt, Lynes has produced versatile work on tech, gaming and entertainment, building relationships with tech companies from Nvidia Apple to Meta, and increasing tech news output from PC to small gadget. Previous gigs include time spent at a roster of impressive names, including a stint as a reporter at The Verge, time as a gaming reporter for Digital Trends and writer at Business Insider.
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