A GLAAD digital billboard next to the New York Times building in July 2024. Photo courtesy of GLAAD. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This is a clear illustration of how leadership at these ...

More U.S. newsrooms have laid off workers so far this January than at this point in January 2024 or January 2023. Trump entering the House chamber for his 2020 State of the Union address. Official ...

A screenshot of the CDC’s “Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons” page as of evening Jan. 31. “This data belongs to all of us,” said Nsikan Akpan, the managing editor for Think Global Health. “We’ve ...

Major mainstream newspapers like The New York Times downplay the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.

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Reporters should cover migrants as people, not as partisan props. During the Biden administration, reporters’ assumptions about immigrants impeded nuanced coverage about migrant and border policy.

Reporters should cover migrants as people, not as partisan props. During the Biden administration, reporters’ assumptions about immigrants impeded nuanced coverage about migrant and border policy.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a press conference on Oct. 20, 2023. Two reporters were removed during his final press conference for interrupting and asking questions critical of U.S.

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.