Smart Brevity: Who suffers when information is oversimplified?

The unexamined problem with brevity in this case is who suffers, and how, when important information is oversimplified.

About The Objective

Major American newsrooms have called themselves objective for generations. But their coverage has always been defined by homogenous teams that fail to account for race, gender, class, disability, and sexuality.

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom holding journalism accountable for past and current systemic biases in reporting and newsroom practices. We are written by and for those underrepresented in journalism.

LANGUAGE

Smart Brevity: Who suffers when information is oversimplified?

The unexamined problem with brevity in this case is who suffers, and how, when important information is oversimplified.

The exclusionary messaging of gendered language in journalism

MISSING COVERAGE

Dismantling the unbearable whiteness of critique

Critics of color, who are vastly outnumbered by their white colleagues, are key to the advancement of their entire field.

Editorial boards that look nothing like their cities shouldn’t speak for them

MEDIA WORKERS

Unlivable wages shouldn’t define journalism internships

Freelancers shouldn’t have to report a story before pitching it

Not everyone has the time to devote to extensive (unpaid) background research.

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