In 2020, newsrooms local and national — from the Kansas City Star to the Los Angeles Times and NPR — issued apologies for past racist coverage and pledged to commit themselves to more equitable ...
Now-independent journalist Joy Reid at NBC Politicon in 2018. Photo via Wikimedia Commons and mouse cursor via Siemens. While on vacation, Amber Ferguson received a generic email that would alter the ...
An edit of the One World Trade Center, where the Condé Nast offices are located. Image by Praneeth Thalla, via Wikimedia Commons. Edits by James Salanga. Whether relationship advice on dating within ...
Get The Objective in your inbox every week. “It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave-trading, and negro-hating land, a printing-press and paper permanently established ...
ProPublica Guild members picket in front of the newsroom’s office in downtown Chicago on April 8. James Salanga/The Objective After years of unionization efforts and conversations with management, ...
Headshot of Anita Varma by Mary Inhea Kang. Cover design by Chang Jae Lee. Both photos courtesy Varma. Looking at solidarity in journalism, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor Anita ...
The Media 2070 team (from left to right: Anshantia “Tia” Oso, Joseph Torres, Venneikia Williams, Diamond Hardiman, Afton Paige). Photo courtesy of Tianna Manon. Update, Feb. 19: Media 2070 released ...
The Feb. 5 rally in support of laid-off Washington Post workers. Photo via Wikimedia Commons user skdb. That means, Felton said in a post on X, “the team covering America beyond D.C. is now 90% white.
Anti-ICE messages line the fence of a house across the street from where ICE killed a peaceful observer on Jan. 7. Photo by Claire Carlson. Reporting from the New York Times on a scandal implicating ...
Edited screenshot, with original text from the “About” page of the Knight Foundation from Sep. 17, 2025. The Knight Foundation has edited its “About” page to remove its diversity, equity, and ...
Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I’m grateful for all the thoughtful, smart writers we’ve been able to work with this past year, and for those who have published the media criticism and ...
Edwin Chavez of San Quentin News receiving an award for second place in local news coverage. Photo by Marcus Casillas, provided courtesy of the Pollen Initiative. In the brightly-lit auditorium of ...