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Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.
Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.
A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...
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.
Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.
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.
We are at a pivotal moment. A shift in the tone and tenor of the conversation around the “local news crisis” has been happening for years, due much in part to the continued growth of the civic media ...
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.
Hannah Docter-Loeb is a D.C.-based freelance writer who loves to write about pop culture, science, and her hometown of Washington D.C. You can follow her on Twitter @keepitonthehdl or check out her ...
Staffers of color say the investigative journalism nonprofit undervalues non-white reporters and is resistant to changing its ways.
The Objective is bringing on two Democracy Correspondents: Uyiosa Elegon and Jacob Gardenswartz.