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 ...

After a historic three-year strike, staffers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in late November. Now, the 239-year-old paper is shuttering.

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New Chicago Documenters register their accounts at a fall 2025 City Bureau workshop. Photo by Grace Del Vecchio, courtesy of City Bureau. Illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. Get The Objective in your ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

From left to right: Aiyana Ishmael, Rainesford Stauffer, Alma Avalle. Photos courtesy of their respective owners. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In 2020, I pitched an interview with young ...

Get The Objective in your inbox every week. As we witness the continued decline of local media, communities across America face an unprecedented era of rapid technological and social change without ...

The Washington Post dismissed long-time opinion columnist Karen Attiah last month after she posted on Bluesky about the racist double standards around Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk’s killing and ...

Update, 1:09 p.m., Oct. 10: As of 7:08 a.m. PT, Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul alongside many other flotilla participants onboard ships detained by the Israeli military ...

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 ...