{"id":16214,"date":"2025-10-09T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/?p=16214"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:03:41","slug":"danyel-smith-confidence-to-tell-your-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/10\/09\/danyel-smith-confidence-to-tell-your-own-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Danyel Smith on developing taste as a writer and building confidence to tell your own story"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">On the latest episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\">Nieman Storyboard podcast<\/a>, award-winning journalist, author, and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danyelsmithwriter.com\/\">Danyel Smith<\/a> joins Storyboard contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/authors\/christina-m-tapper\/\">Christina M. Tapper<\/a> to discuss building the confidence to tell her own story and being a model for others to do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Smith, the first woman and first Black person to serve as editor-in-chief of Vibe and who later served as editor of Billboard, is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/shine-bright-a-very-personal-history-of-black-women-in-pop-danyel-smith\/b7523ef571bdd1c2?ean=9780593132739&amp;next=t&amp;\">\u201cShine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop.\u201d<\/a> The book is part memoir, part cultural criticism, while giving Black female music artists their due. Smith is also the host of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/20Ifo2kqrmLweDY87KC0dr\">\u201cBlack Girl Songbook\u201d<\/a> and a Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame selection committee member.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-spacer mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-html mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-17979777\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\/17979777-danyel-smith-on-developing-taste-as-a-writer-and-building-confidence-to-tell-your-own-story.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-17979777&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ Follow us in <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/nieman-storyboard\/id1804505440\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4cN4SOwf5Am05PoA9wckcA\">Spotify<\/a>, or your <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\">favorite podcast app<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-spacer mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Smith prides herself as a writer who covers music icons, newsmakers, and world champion athletes, but in the last several years, Smith has turned more of her attention to memoir writing and bringing her own life experiences into the stories she\u2019s assigned. As a journalist of more than three decades, she\u2019s more than earned the right. But owning her space in the writing is still a process.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>\u201c\u200aI don&#8217;t know if I own it completely, yet,\u201d Smith admits. \u201cA huge down payment has been put down on owning that space, and I&#8217;m good on my payments. But, it&#8217;s a discipline to look at things that were either so beautiful and wonderful or so terrible and so painful, and to just sit in that. It&#8217;s an exercise, each time, in self-worth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>That discipline extends to Smith\u2019s editorship. The Oakland, Calif., native encourages the writers she works with to consider their experiences and observations as worthy of consideration in the work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>\u201c\u200aOnce you\u2019re an editor, aren&#8217;t you essentially some type of coach or teacher? Reminding [writers] that everything that they&#8217;ve done and lived is important enough to be inserted into this piece, whether with the pronoun \u2018I\u2019 or just because your knowledge and creativity is going to infuse it. Even if [the story] is about something else [and] isn&#8217;t about you, it&#8217;s still your story and your take on things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Smith\u2019s approach to writing is complemented by her journaling practice, her recent embrace of CrossFit, and her strong opinions on semicolons.&nbsp;The excerpts below are edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On being your own second voice:<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>There&#8217;s a clip of Diana Ross where she talks about self-worth\u2026 I&#8217;m paraphrasing her, but she says, when she was a teenager, she always used to say, \u201cWell, I&#8217;m gonna do this. I&#8217;m going to work at this department store, or I&#8217;m going to learn how to do this dance, or I&#8217;m going to be a singer.\u201d And there would be that negative voice also in her head that said, \u201cNo, you&#8217;re not. Why would you think that you could do that?\u201d And she said she really started growing up and coming into herself when she started being her own second voice and co-signing herself. Because she was worth it and because she could do it. And so you have to remind yourself, or let me use the pronoun that is always difficult for me to use: \u201cI\u201d need to remind myself, always, that my story is worth telling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On creating your personal archive:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I have journals from when I was 11, so I&#8217;m not a big thrower away of things. And those times when I don&#8217;t have something that I wish that I could put my hand on, either digitally or in an old dusty box, I\u2019m mad at myself. Everything goes back to self-worth with me. I feel like I probably threw that away, or got rid of it in a moment of feeling like it wasn&#8217;t worth keeping. I&#8217;m not saying we have to be pack rats. But to just throw away words that you&#8217;ve written \u2014 or for me, sometimes it&#8217;s even concert stuff, or photos from old phones \u2014 I mean, I&#8217;m worth keeping.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On sharing a deeply personal story for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/11\/933080759\/sade-saves-lovers-rock-20th-career-retrospective\">NPR feature on Sade<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Sometimes I had to ask myself why I never pitched [a Sade story], because I never have. NPR pitched this to me. It was on the 20th anniversary of a particular album, and the person that came to me with the idea had been following my work for a while and was like, \u201cYou never really have written about Sade.\u201d It seems like just a real obvious person that I would&#8217;ve written about Sade \u2026 one of the reasons is because she&#8217;s tied up in so much pain for me.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>But I trust people at NPR, the ones that I know and adore and respect. I said, \u201cWell, if I do it \u2026 I&#8217;m going to have to say something about myself,\u201d because my life was so tied up in her music. They were just like, \u201cWhy would you even feel like you had to announce that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>And then I just decided if I was going to do it, then I should go on ahead and do it. It. And if I was going to do it, I should put it in the lede, because any other way would just be half-stepping.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On finding a new life for your unused material:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>For ESPN, I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/29846571\/the-story-whitney-houston-epic-national-anthem-performance-1991-super-bowl\">Whitney Houston&#8217;s [Super Bowl] National Anthem<\/a>. That piece was so long when I filed it. Good gracious. It was, I don&#8217;t know, 12,000 words. It was a mess because I did so much reporting, and I&#8217;m the rabbit hole queen. So one of the rabbit holes that I went down was about the singer Jos\u00e9 Feliciano \u2026He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aQkY2UFBUb4\">sang the national anthem in a World Series game in 1968<\/a>. And he changed the cadence of the song. Also, Whitney Houston did. Whitney Houston and her team slowed it down. Jos\u00e9 Feliciano gave it so much Latin soul\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>My editor at ESPN was like, \u201cWhy is Jos\u00e9 Feliciano all up in Whitney Houston&#8217;s business?\u201d I had a whole speech about the comparison of the tempos, and she was like, \u2018I don&#8217;t care.\u2019 But a year later, another ESPN editor called me\u2026 and said, \u2018why did somebody tell me that you wrote something about Jos\u00e9 Feliciano that didn&#8217;t get published? Because we&#8217;re doing a whole piece on anthems that are sung in stadiums. And is there something that you wanna show me?\u2019 Look at that. Look at the art gods working on my behalf!<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On semicolons:<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I\u2019m not going to use a semicolon. It\u2019s an indecisive piece of punctuation. My thing is, there&#8217;s a period, and there&#8217;s a comma. Pick one, or use an em dash. Very simple.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading, Listening, and Watching List:<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-list mb-4 list max-w-screen-full mx-auto pl-5 \">\n            \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/611355\/shine-bright-by-danyel-smith\/\">Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop\u201d <\/a>(Danyel Smith, 2022)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shinebrighthq.substack.com\/\">Danyel Smith\u2019s Shine Bright HQ newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/danamo\/\">Danyel Smith on Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/black-girl-songbook\/id1615428597\">\u201cBlack Girl Songbook\u201d podcast<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/168890\/more-like-wrestling-by-danyel-smith\/\">More Like Wrestling<\/a>\u201d (novel by Danyel Smith, 2007)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/168889\/bliss-by-danyel-smith\/\">Bliss\u201d (novel by Danyel Smith, 2010)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/authors\/christina-m-tapper\/\">Christina M. Tapper at Nieman Storyboard<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christinatapper.com\/collage\">Christina M. Tapper&#8217;s collage art<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/zora.medium.com\/the-unstoppable-genius-and-glory-of-black-women-in-music-b8294ac4399\">The Unstoppable Genius and Glory of Black Women in Music<\/a>\u201d (ZORA, June 15, 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/08\/magazine\/sza.html\">SZA&#8217;s Ruination Brought Her Everything<\/a>\u201d (The New York Times, February 8, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/29846571\/the-story-whitney-houston-epic-national-anthem-performance-1991-super-bowl\">The story of Whitney Houston&#8217;s epic national anthem performance at 1991 Super Bowl<\/a>\u201d (ESPN, Feb 11, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aQkY2UFBUb4\">Jos\u00e9 Feliciano performing the National Anthem<\/a> (1968 World Series, YouTube)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/11\/933080759\/sade-saves-lovers-rock-20th-career-retrospective\">Sade Saves<\/a>\u201d (NPR, November 11, 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/movies\/music-box-yacht-rock-a-dockumentary\/a06a30f0-9552-46e5-8827-510fb41eb1fb\">\u201cYacht Rock: A Dockumentary\u201d<\/a> (HBO Max, 2024)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andscape.com\/contributors\/david-dennis-jr\/\">David Dennis Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dbcadet\/\">Danielle Cadet<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andscape.com\/contributors\/justin-tinsley\/\">Justin Tinsley<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andscape.com\/contributors\/kelley-carter\/\">Kelley L. 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