A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...

Staff at Outlier Media and THE CITY NY share how quizzes can increase voters' confidence in civic participation.

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 ...

Advance Local shuttering the newsroom shows a growing deprioritization of representative reporting from marginalized communities.

Colleen Grablick and Abigail Higgins, two of the D.C. newsroom’s six co-founders, on building a worker-led newsroom cooperative, filling coverage gaps, and D.C. pride. The logo of The 51st overlaid ...

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.

A Jan. 2020 protest against the opening of a new ICE detention facility in Arleta, Los Angeles. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I understand why journalists rely on the protest paradigm to ...

Laura Castañeda says the decision was “retaliation” from the paper’s parent company, Alden Global Capital, for a more diverse opinion page.

While the distortion of government data isn’t new, the Trump administration has taken this to a new level, as the Washington Post aptly chronicles: disappearing data about climate, sexual orientation ...

Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.