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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...

A Jan. 2020 protest against the opening of a new ICE detention facility in Arleta, Los Angeles. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I understand why journalists rely on the protest paradigm to ...

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.

A growing list of journalists have been silenced for criticizing Israel’s military campaign and highlighting its deadly impact on Palestinians.

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 ...

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.

Objectivity in journalism is a rickety thing. When arguing about it — against or for it — the definition and the way it’s implemented is always shifting. Many of the conversations about objectivity ...