There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance tactics.

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.

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

Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.

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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.

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 ...

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.

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.