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

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

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 ...

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

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. This is ...

A Jersey Bee youth media workshop held at Rutgers University-Newark last year focused on producing a “Student’s Guide to School Board Elections.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Villafane for the Jersey Bee, ...

If you believe the headlines, there is an all-encompassing conflict in the United States with two distinguishable sides. The shorthand for this fight is the “culture war.” And apparently we’re all ...

Screenshot from the editor’s note appended to the Wall Street Journal’s initial coverage of the bullet’s inscriptions. Photo of Wall Street Journal corporate headquarters by John Wisniewski via Flickr ...

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. Editor’s note: Two weeks after publication, Center ...

From left to right: Aiyana Ishmael, Rainesford Stauffer, Alma Avalle. Photos courtesy of their respective owners. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In 2020, I pitched an interview with young ...

This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...

Photo by Sam Mann on Unsplash. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. Over the ...