2025
The Case for Movement Journalism
A column from The Objective by Lewis Raven Wallace, author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity.
Movement journalism is grounded in explicit pushback against systemic oppression. It encourages action and agency, helps communities come together in resistance, and preserves collective memory. In this limited-run column, Lewis Raven Wallace explores its purposes and makes the case for why movement journalism matters.
The Case for
Movement Journalism
What if the news helped us connect to one another and imagine a more just world?
Movement journalism can be an antidote to hopelessness. It is memory work that challenges oppression while fighting disinformation and builds community power. In this limited-run column, Lewis Raven Wallace explores a theory of change for movement journalism and what journalism can make possible when it is rooted in the movements it serves.
