MadameNoire

MadameNoire
Type of site
Online magazine
Available inEnglish
URLmadamenoire.com
Launched2010
Current statusActive

MadameNoire is an international online magazine that is geared toward the lifestyles of African American women as well as popular culture.

In 2015, MadameNoire had 7,116,000 unique visitors monthly, making it the most trafficked site oriented to African Americans—ahead of The Root, BET.com, and Bossip.com.[1]

The site also has a radio partnership with Café Mocha.[2]

Staff includes Brande Victorian, deputy editor,[2] Courtney Whitaker, weekend editor;[3] and LaShaun Williams, culture and parenting columnist.[4]

MadameNoire was owned by Moguldom Media Group at the time of its 2010 launch.[5] In 2012, Moguldom folded the Atlanta Post (which published from 2008 to 2012) into MadameNoire.[6]

In 2017, iOne Digital, a division of Urban One, Inc., acquired MadameNoire, along with Bossip.com and Hip Hop Wired. The acquisition helped iOne Digital become one of the largest black digital content providers in the U.S.[7]

  1. ^ Prince, Richard (January 24, 2016). "Madame Noire Tops Black-Oriented Websites". The Root. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Mays, Raqiyah (October 1, 2014). "Radio Show 'Café Mocha' Partners with MadameNoire". Black Enterprise.
  3. ^ Oyiboke, Amen (June 25, 2015). "What Is…An Editor?". Los Angeles Sentinel.
  4. ^ Williams, LaShaun (August 14, 2011). "Spanking Is Part of Black Culture". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "History". Moguldom. Moguldom Media Group. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  6. ^ Redding, Jr., Robert "Rob" (January 26, 2012). "Atlanta Post halts publication". Redding News Review. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  7. ^ Fraser, Lisa (May 17, 2017). "iOne Digital Acquires MadameNoire, Bossip.Com and Hip Hope Wired Websites". Fraser Black Enterprise. Retrieved 27 February 2020.