Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.

Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.

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, ...

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 ...

Colleen Grablick and Abigail Higgins, two of the D.C. newsroom’s six co-founders, on building a worker-led newsroom cooperative, filling coverage gaps, and D.C. pride. The logo of The 51st overlaid ...

Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.

A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...

Discussing cultural appreciation and appropriation is also about broader questions of who can get a platform to share food — and who profits.

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.

Courtesy of Brent Stirton/Getty Images. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In January 2023, 34-year-old Sarah Beth Clendaniel obtained a driver’s license for the first time. Allegedly next on ...

The Knight Foundation, which touches just about every area of journalism in the U.S., is negating its mission and hurting its grantees.

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 ...