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 ...

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 ...

Photo by Jon S on Flickr. This story also appears in our newsletter, The Front Page, which examines systems of power and inequity in media. Subscribe here. Layoffs in journalism since 2022 have ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 sign held up by a protestor at the 2017 Women’s March in New York. Narih Lee/Wikimedia Commons Get The Objective in your inbox every week. For the past six months, Jane* has maintained a regular ...

While the distortion of government data isn’t new, the Trump administration has taken this to a new level, as the Washington Post aptly chronicles: disappearing data about climate, sexual orientation ...

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 ...

American University had just returned to in-person classes. To help keep students safe from what was then the first Omicron wave in February 2022, the university provided a limited number of KN95 ...

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 ...