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Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we ...
Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with ...
Breaking down examples of coverage focused on immigrants and their support systems, not just on the concept of unrest.
The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their ...
The Protocol, the New York Times ’ new podcast on the history of gender-affirming care for youth, largely excludes the voices ...
Against her will, the newsroom plans to use audio from the mom of a trans girl for its new podcast about gender-affirming ...
The current corporate model of journalism is falling short. Disinformation is running rampant. Journalists showing solidarity to their counterparts in Palestine are censored and targeted. Those ...
Residents of Morristown, N.J. gather with journalists at a 2017 Free Press event to discuss how to strengthen local news. Photo courtesy of Timothy Karr, illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. This is ...
Attendees engaged in discussion at a Free Press event. Photo courtesy of Free Press, illustration by Erik Rodriguez. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. We are at a pivotal moment. A shift in ...
Jodi Rave Spotted Bear on the necessity of American Indians having a seat at the table to forge a new path in building independent Indigenous media. A meet-up of folks involved in the Indigenous Media ...
Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them. Raskin’s critic photo. Photo by Allisyn K.