The nominations are both for a story reported by Alexis Allison, which covered a New York City newspaper editor’s years-long ...

Framing ICE coverage as a mere immigration issue may no longer meet the needs of the communities you cover, especially as many have weathered the fallout of raids, a new detention center, or ...

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

Despite holding themselves up as “objective” and “impartial” for generations, mainstream American newsrooms have almost always been defined by homogenous teams that fail to account for race, gender, ...

Photo by Sam Mann on Unsplash. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. Over the ...

The current corporate model of journalism is falling short. Disinformation is running rampant. Journalists showing solidarity to their counterparts in Palestine are censored and targeted. Those ...

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their employees, how journalists interact with their community, and what new forms of ...

Residents of Morristown, N.J. gather with journalists at a 2017 Free Press event to discuss how to strengthen local news. Photo courtesy of Timothy Karr, illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. This is ...

A conversation about tokenism in food media, the importance of disrupting it, and what food media might look like in the future.

This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food media — and what its future could look like ...

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. Raskin’s critic photo. Photo by Allisyn K.