Danyel Smith Wilson (born Danyel Smith; 1965) is an American magazine editor, journalist, and novelist . [1] Smith is the former and first African-American editor of Billboard [2] and Vibe magazine, [3] respectively. She is author of two novels and a history of African-American women in pop music. [4] [5]

“A mixture…of confidence and West Coast cool,” the author Danyel Smith makes award-winning journalism, produces documentary, creates and hosts podcasts, and leads media teams to greatness. Learn More

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Award-winning journalist and author of Shine Bright: A Very Personal HIstory of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith brings cultural stories to life through her podcast, Black Girl Songbook, the New York Times Magazine, and HBO’s Music Box documentaries.

Jan 27, 2025 · In a new Investigation Discovery docuseries, Vibe Editor-in-Chief, Danyel Smith shares a horrifying memory of a late-90s encounter with Combs

Danyel Smith was editor-in-chief of VIBE from 1997 to 1999. Her latest project, HRDCVR, is a magazine in hard-cover form, or as she puts it, "a book shaped magazine."

Mar 18, 2021 · Danyel Smith sits on a coastline, hair blowing in the wind, as she looks into the camera. Photo taken at Oak Bluffs, MA in 1993. (Carl Posey) A s a self-described creative Black girl with hustle, Smith worked at a copy store on Oakland’s Piedmont Avenue when she was younger, and later at a more posh position at Saks Fifth Avenue in San ...

Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is the author of the forthcoming Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also host of Black Girl Songbook, a Spotify podcast that centers the sounds and stories of Black women.

Apr 17, 2022 · “To say I ‘became’ editor-in-chief of Vibe in 1994—and the first woman and the first Black person to have the job, and the first woman to run a national music magazine—is a criminal abbreviation,”...