One of U.S. nonprofit journalism's biggest funders no longer has an explicit section for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ...

A non-comprehensive list of The Objective’s co-directors and readers’ picks for media coverage and commentary this year.

City Bureau's Documenters' program models the new social contract needed for local news and the civic media system emerging ...

This year, the historic awards — "Pulitzers" of prison journalism — resumed thanks to Pollen Initiative and Southern Illinois ...

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

Whether it is our national forests, subway systems, or the fire department, we as a country accept that certain public trusts ...

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Photo courtesy of Jalen Wade. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. But my own job search and my work as an associate editor for College Park Here & Now reinforces what the Medill School of ...

Andrea D. Wenzel on reimagining an equitable, cooperative, and sustainable local media system amid overlapping crises. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S REIMAGINE IT. The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom ...

Residents of Morristown, N.J. gather with journalists at a 2017 Free Press event to discuss how to strengthen local news. Photo courtesy of Timothy Karr, illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. Get The ...