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NAWBO-LA: Director
Natalie Cole
CEO/Publisher, Our Weekly Newspaper
Natalie Cole is
CEO/Publisher of Our Weekly, a newspaper that directly addresses the topics and issues facing
Los Angeles’ African American communities and serves as an oasis for learning and
entertaining while enabling voices within that community to be heard. Our Weekly is the largest verified distribution paper in the African
American community in Southern California, with 50,000 copies distributed each
Thursday, of which 30,000 are delivered door-to-door and 20,000 are distributed
commercially. Prior to launching Our Weekly, she also worked as associate publisher for LA Weekly,
where she helped change the face of alternative news by being directly involved in the
launch of an innovative magazine-style cover for LA Weekly that is being duplicated across
the country. In December 2007, Cole launched yet another organization, Urban Media Foundation, a
501(c)(3) with the goal of educating and training South Los Angeles youth on journalism, the
business side of newspapers and the technology of newspapers, all of which provide
expertise which is transferable to other industries.
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