https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612231187562 The International Journal of Press/Politics 1–24 © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/19401612231187562 journals.sagepub.com/home/hij Article Reporting on Black Lives Matter in 2020: How Digital Black Press Outlets Covered the Racial Uprisings Miya Williams Fayne 1 and Allissa V. Richardson 2 Abstract George Floyd’s fatal police encounter sparked the largest social justice movement in American history. Black press journalists in the United States found themselves documenting and coping with Black trauma as they performed their duties in pandemic-mandated isolation. Through semi-structured interviews with digital Black press journalists, this study, which was conducted between 2020 and 2021, explores the reporting and personal strategies these journalists deployed during tumultuous times. We found they (1) provided humanizing and ongoing social justice coverage; (2) relied on Black experts, activists, and their readers as sources; (3) created social media content that appealed to Black and non-Black audiences; and (4) cared for each other and readers to build intracultural support. Our findings illuminate how the digital Black press practiced “movement journalism,” an approach that centers oppressed people and counters protest paradigm-style coverage. Keywords Black Lives Matter, Black press, movement journalism, protest paradigm, digital journalism, social media 1 Department of Communications, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA 2 School of Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Corresponding Author: Miya Williams Fayne, California State University Fullerton, 800 N. State College, CP-460-20, Fullerton, CA 92831, USA. Email: mwilliamsfayne@Fullerton.edu 1187562HIJ XX X 10.1177/19401612231187562The International Journal of Press/PoliticsWilliams Fayne and Richardson research-article 2023