Over the past four years, The Objective has published work that both critiques journalism from a lens of power inequity and lays out ways it can do better. Facing another Trump presidency, here are just a few of our past pieces that provide context for how we got here and highlight the kind of reporting and infrastructural support that will be crucial moving forward.
Context:
“The troubling framework of the Neo-Nazi’s girlfriend”: Journalist Alina Kim calls out the pitfalls with news coverage reducing and minimizing women’s active participation in far-right extremism.
“As transgender America struggles, national news doesn’t know what to write”: Assigned Media founder Evan Urquhart argues for national news to consider better trans coverage imperative.
Community-building:
“Solidarity reporting can help the cause of public safety for marginalized communities”: Journalism professor Anita Varma lays out the principles of solidarity reporting as a way to emphasize community cohesion and long-term significance.
“What would it take to empower journalists of color to do investigative work?”: Investigative reporter Lam Thuy Vo’s recap of a recent Investigative Reporters and Editors assessment provides ways newsrooms can provide infrastructural support as investigative journalism remains sorely needed.
“Legislation is nice, but freelance media workers can achieve more through collective action”: Journalism professor and IWW member James Anderson highlights the importance of community action in pushing for more freelance protections.
“We need a media ecosystem that urges justice”: Cierra Brown Hinton’s piece for our Civic Media Series clarifies the necessity of shifting narratives and editorial frames toward a more just world.