Meeting community information needs can build community power
How movement journalism develops local networks of trust and connection, even before disaster strikes.
Without New Voices legislation, we risk igniting an epidemic of silence among U.S. student journalists
Defunding and devaluing public media is a top-down erosion of truth-telling that undercuts efforts to strengthen student press freedom and contributes to censorship of student journalists.
Pre-reporting is a part of being a freelance journalist. Is it free labor?
As a result of an increasingly precarious journalism industry, freelance journalists are often toeing the line between their actual profession and marketing their work.
The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to?
If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name?
Wall Street Journal shirks apology for publishing anti-trans misinformation after Charlie Kirk shooting
Over two-thirds of Americans don’t know a trans person themselves. As right-wing efforts to connect trans people with violence continue escalating after Charlie Kirk’s shooting, journalists must be rigorous in covering rhetoric from anti-trans activists without verification or clarification.
WaPo fires only full-time Black woman opinion columnist for condemning political violence
Former WaPo columnist Karen Attiah says her dismissal is part of a “broader purge of Black voices” across industries.
What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don't treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.
The Objective wins its first INN Award!
The win was in the Breaking Barriers (Micro Division) category, for a story reported by Alexis Allison covering a New York City newspaper editor’s years-long bullying.
The Objective is a finalist for two INN Awards!
The nominations are both for a story reported by Alexis Allison, which covered a New York City newspaper editor’s years-long bullying.
Make it make sense: movement media as political education
Even when our stories herald bad news, they can also include context and analysis that helps people make meaning of the story and figure out our role in responding.