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‘Pick your hard’: Black independent journalism isn’t as simple as Substack
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.
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What is The Objective?
Despite holding themselves up as “objective” and “impartial” for generations, mainstream American newsrooms have almost always been defined by homogenous teams that fail to account for race, gender, class, disability, and sexuality.
We founded The Objective in June of 2020 as a volunteer collective of journalists concerned with systems of inequity in newsrooms. Our small non-profit newsroom relies on donations to hold journalism institutions accountable and advocate for journalism that’s understanding of power dynamics and the intersections of identity.
