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Reed said she imagines her stories as arrows in a quiver that someone can pull out and use when confronting disinformation or ...
On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...
Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.
Sometimes you find yourself in the right moment and time to make a difference. Caitlin Dickerson started at NPR as an intern and moved on to report for the newsroom, where she won numerous awards for ...
Get The Objective in your inbox every week. A lot of stories die when an editor says “no.” But I’ve learned over the years — from my own experience and from having had discussions with journalists ...
A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.
Food reporters shouldn't just write about what's on their plate — they need to interrogate how it got there.
This piece is part of “Reclaiming Democracy,” a project of The Objective taking a critical look at how democracy and journalism co-exist in the U.S. The 2020 uprisings spurred philanthropic support on ...
Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.
Against her will, the newsroom plans to use audio from the mom of a trans girl for its new podcast about gender-affirming care.
Ericka A. Dixon and Sebastian Margaret, senior national organizers with The Disability Project at Transgender Law Center, on crafting a guide for better reporting on disability focused on those most ...