I am the first Black woman to lead The Daily Northwestern in 140 years. Before I started at the paper, we didn’t have conversations about the media’s role on campus and in the country — instead, for example, we would have smaller, case-by-case discussions about using the word “racist.” Seeing this need, I pushed my […]
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.
Prominent white writers don’t want to admit they disagree with many of their Black contemporaries.
There are too many examples of newsrooms passing on threats to their reporters, many of them Black, indigenous, or people of color, for their tweets.
