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Marlee Baldridge

Marlee Baldridge
Marlee Baldridge is the business administrator at The Objective. She has written for RJI, the American Press Institute, and Nieman Lab.

Marlee's Latest Articles

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The Objective is taking a break

To critique journalism, we need to model the behavior we want to see. But we'll be back soon

Q&A: Nikki Usher and “News for the Rich, White, and Blue”
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The digital divide is a news divide

Few organizations are considering scale of the digital divide in America and the serious inequity in how information is distributed.

The logo at launch for the Trans Journalists Association — a purple trans symbol with the words Trans Journalists Association.
Q&A: Trans media workers make their own space

Oliver-Ash Kleine on why the Trans Journalists Association needs to exist and how it’s already making a difference. 

Objectivity and the scientific method won’t save journalism

Even today, many journalists use this definition of “objectivity,” the extension of the “scientific method,” as a way to describe how they decide what is objective. The problem is that it’s so clearly not working. First, and perhaps the most obvious problem with objectivity is that it never worked this way.