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Nov 1, 2024 · 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 journalism can look like.
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Oct 30, 2024 · 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 journalism can look like.
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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 journalism can look like.. Writ large, mainstream newsrooms have never reflected the diversity of the U.S., nor have they been welcoming to journalists of color.
Objectivity “wars”: A move toward reimagining journalism
Jul 6, 2020 · There were several ways the conversation about objectivity in journalism continued throughout 2022, one of which was the Columbia Journalism Review’s September “Objectivity Wars” event. The discussion supplied questions for journalists to …
Rounding up Objective pieces providing context, suggestions for …
Dec 6, 2024 · Here are just a few of The Objective's past pieces providing context for how we got here and highlighting the kind of coverage and infrastructural support that will be crucial moving forward.
Stories – The Objective
Dec 6, 2024 · Stories from The Objective. The tentative agreement includes an average raise of 12% over the next two years, along with more protections around the use of AI and layoffs in order of seniority.
Two years of The Objective
Sep 22, 2022 · This month, The Objective is two years old. One of the great ironies in U.S. journalism is that transparency, contextualization, and self-reflection – all values often found in great reporting – have often been shunned by media executives when …
Objectivity and the scientific method won’t save journalism
Jun 15, 2020 · Newsroom leaders have been figuratively subtweeting, writing counter op-eds, and tsking about Wesley Lowery’s op-ed in The New York Times.Lowery outlines how newsrooms have time and time again interpreted “objectivity” as “neutrality,” usually to the detriment of marginalized communities.
U.S. media “objectivity” still favors Israeli narratives. Why?
Jul 16, 2020 · 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 news media remaining steadfast in its devotion to principled neutrality. Both-side-isms are used as a method of covering the “full story.”
The Objective is back
Sep 22, 2022 · After a three-month break, The Objective is back. Our newsletters will be up and running again today. And over the coming weeks, we’re going to start publishing new stories and criticism. If you’re new to our work, our mission is simple: The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom holding journalism accountable for past and current exclusion, erasure, and prejudice in reporting and newsroom ...