Q&A: Alan Chazaro of KQED’s ¡Hella Hungry!
Poet, educator and ¡Hella Hungry! creator Alan Chazaro reflects on coming to food writing as someone from outside the institution of traditional journalism, telling human stories through food and more.
About The Objective
The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their employees, how journalists interact with their community, and what new forms of journalism can look like.
LANGUAGE
Food reporting should go beyond buzzwords
Food reporters shouldn’t just write about what’s on their plate — they need to interrogate how it got there.
Who is Marty Baron talking to?
What are we actually talking about when we talk about objectivity?
MEDIA WORKERS
Trauma-informed reporting can improve journalism for both reporters and sources
More young and relatively inexperienced journalists are being forced to cover mass shootings. Journalism schools need to be preparing them.
The dam has finally broken for nonprofit news outlet unionization
Nonprofit outlets have been slow to unionize, despite their widely-held “savior” status within journalism.
STORY FRAME
Bad-faith coverage of trans issues — who does it serve?
A New York Times reporter shows how not to cover trans families and trans issues, again.
After 2020, Black-led newsrooms ask: Where is the long-term support?
Many Black-led outlets — digital and legacy media alike — are still trying to figure out how to sustain their work.
INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Where the hell is Africa in food coverage?
Despite the growing popularity of food media in recent years, African stories are sparingly included — leaving media coverage of food history incomplete.
