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WEBAug 23, 2024 · Get The Objective in your inbox every week. 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. We are written by and for those underrepresented in journalism.
About The Objective
WEBThe Objective is a fiscally sponsored project of and a member publication of the Institute for Nonprofit News. All donations are tax-deductible. We maintain a public list of all organizations that donate to The Objective, as well as all donations of more than $5,000 in a year: Indiegraf • Google News Initiative • Fund for Nonprofit News at ...
The Objective
WEBSep 13, 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.
Objectivity “wars”: A move toward reimagining journalism
WEBJul 6, 2020 · Objectivity “wars”: A move toward reimagining journalism. 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 consider in their practice and priorities.
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WEBJul 17, 2020 · A Bit More Media. Q&A: Democracy Day — On Sept. 15, journalists can participate in U.S. Democracy Day, a collective effort to improve the public’s understanding of democracy by publishing related content.Rachel Glickhouse, one of the organizers, shared more about the event’s inception with us in our latest Q&A.. The whiteness of critique and investigation — New this week, two pieces ...
The Objective is back
WEBSep 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 ...
A new chapter for The Objective
WEBJun 3, 2022 · A new chapter for The Objective. Co-director James Salanga reflects on changes at the newsroom, which is now able to fund part-time salaries for its two co-directors, Salanga and Gabe Schneider. Portrait by Jireh Deng. In June 2020, Gabe Schneider published a post on Medium responding to news outlets’ coverage of George Floyd’s murder and ...
Two years of The Objective
WEBSep 22, 2022 · This month, somehow, The Objective is already two years old. Since we started as a rough collection of blogs, media reporting, and media criticism, we’ve aspired to be a publication where early-career journalists (students or otherwise) can be publicly introspective. Where journalists of color can go to read more about how the field is and ...
Objectivity and the scientific method won’t save journalism
WEBAug 14, 2020 · Objectivity was a way to reach the more literate masses, the scientific method was a short-hand for determining how objective the reporting actually was. 4…. The idea was that journalists needed to employ objective, observable, repeatable methods of verification in their reporting–precisely because they could never be personally objective.
After 2020, Black-led newsrooms ask: Where is the long-term …
WEBMar 30, 2023 · 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.. The 2020 uprisings spurred philanthropic support on issues disproportionately impacting Black people, like climate disaster, maternal mortality, policing — and the news outlets that cover them.