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.

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 ...

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.

The Knight Foundation, which touches just about every area of journalism in the U.S., is negating its mission and hurting its grantees.

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.

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 ...

Courtesy of Brent Stirton/Getty Images. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In January 2023, 34-year-old Sarah Beth Clendaniel obtained a driver’s license for the first time. Allegedly next on ...

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 ...

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 ...