Photo of a billboard in North St. Louis by Adam Mahoney, shared with permission from Capital B. I have a simple answer for why I became an environmental journalist: George Floyd was murdered. It was ...

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their ...

Tech isn’t just venture capitalists, start-up founders, and engineers. Mainstream tech journalism should reflect that. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S REIMAGINE IT. The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom ...

The Objective is proud to announce that its co-executive directors — James Salanga and Gabe Schneider — have received the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) 2026 Award for Leadership in ...

One of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Community Awards, the honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA’s goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and ...

An incarcerated journalist in Georgia explains how proposed cellphone jamming in prisons could silence reporting on ...

National Writers Union data reveals decades of stagnant freelance journalism rates, documenting the financial pressures faced ...

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 ...

In 2020, the National Writers Union’s Freelance Solidarity Project (NWU-FSP) launched the Rate Sharing Database, asking freelance media workers to enter as many of their pay rates as possible. We’ve ...

In their April 29, 2024 issue, The Mercury’s previous editorial board published their goodbyes to the paper and to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). In their final issue, the outgoing managing ...

Sometimes you find yourself in the right moment and time to make a difference. Caitlin Dickerson started at NPR as an intern and moved on to report for the newsroom, where she won numerous awards for ...