Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.

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.

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

Despite holding themselves up as “objective” and “impartial” for generations, mainstream American newsrooms have almost always been defined by homogenous teams that fail to account for race, gender, ...

Civic Media Series The Objective, in partnership with Free Press and members of the Future of Local News Collective, is publishing personal essays from local news leaders across an emerging field.

As Trump’s attacks on press continue, the media ecosystem needs to reckon with oppression and censorship by reorienting itself toward real community protection, rather than complying in advance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’ s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...

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.