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 ...

The Baltimore Sun ”once again disparaged … human reporters and their work” by publishing two AI-generated political analyses, ...

In the midst of attacks on Black press and journalists, Media 2070 charts a tangible future for Black narrative power.

After “several funders did not renew their grants," the Harvard-based hub helping make academia accessible to reporters cut two positions.

Downtown Marshall, North Carolina, six months after Hurricane Helene in Feb. 2025. Photo courtesy of Katie Myers. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. One year after Hurricane Helene, a ...

In 2016, when North Carolina Republicans passed the first bathroom bill in the United States, H B 2, the backlash was immediate: Corporations boycotted, people protested, and the bill’s champion, ...

Anti-ICE messages line the fence of a house across the street from where ICE killed a peaceful observer on Jan. 7. Photo by Claire Carlson. Reporting from the New York Times on a scandal implicating ...

Since coming into the White House last January, the Donald Trump administration has been cracking down on initiatives for diversity, equity, and inclusion across nonprofit, public, and private sectors ...

Edited screenshot, with original text from the “About” page of the Knight Foundation from Sep. 17, 2025. The Knight Foundation has edited its “About” page to remove its diversity, equity, and ...

Mike Rispoli testifying in the New Jersey Statehouse. Photo by Tim Karr, courtesy of Free Press. Illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is part of ...

This piece is part of our Civic Media Series. Read the Civic Media Magazine and explore pieces from the series here. With the rise of each new form of media, communities have figured out a way to make ...