The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their ...

Newsrooms and reporters are bracing for the ascension of an anti-press president who spouts racist, xenophobic, and transphobic rhetoric by examining the ways their coverage contributed to his ...

As the year ends, The Objective welcomes a seventh member to its advisory board: Lewis Raven Wallace. Wallace, an independent journalist and co-founder of southern movement collective Press On, is ...

The University of Pennsylvania Palestine solidarity encampment in April 2024. Photo courtesy of Kristine Villanueva. U.S. news coverage of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine has showed mainstream ...

The new Civic Information Needs Census exists thanks to the understanding that measuring information needs is critical for those creating civic information. A newsstand in New York City in 2008. The ...

Systems are responsible for journalism’s failures, but so are the people that define them. In The Message, Coates doesn’t name them. Eduardo Montes-Bradley. In The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes ...

The Metropolitan Transit Agency prepares to distribute N95 masks to employees in early 2020. Courtesy of MTA via Flickr. This story was originally published as a column through the Reynolds Journalism ...

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 ...

After the summer of 2020, a slew of journalism organizations committed to change in terms of how they cover historically underrepresented communities, as well as how they treated and hired staff from ...

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