Attiah sat down with The Objective to discuss objectivity and Black representation at WaPo and mainstream media at large.

Movement journalism needs a theory of change in order to affect policy and practice. Who are you trying to make aware? Why?

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 ...

Crews clean up damage after Hurricane Helene in Oct. 2024. Photo via the North Carolina Department of Transportation Flickr. Every hurricane season, southerners and people dwelling on the coasts are ...

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 ...

At a recent dinner party, I mentioned that I had co-founded a nonprofit local newsroom and that much of my work over the last decade has been adjacent to, if not squarely in, the nonprofit news space.

The facade of Liminal Space Collective, where Mainline often hosts community events. Photo courtesy of Aja Arnold. We are in an urgent epidemic of loneliness and isolation, the symptoms of which ...

Headlines from (top to bottom) Erin in the Morning, Truthout, and Mainline, over photos of a 2022 March for Trans Youth in Texas and Stop Cop City graffiti. Photos via Wikimedia Commons. “Erin In the ...

Photo by Sam Mann on Unsplash. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. Over the ...

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

Supreme Court photo via Daniel Huizinga on Flickr. Screenshots from the Family Research Council’s amicus brief in U.S. v. Skrmetti. New York Times stories were cited 29 times in amicus briefs ...

A GLAAD digital billboard next to the New York Times building in July 2024. Photo courtesy of GLAAD. Edit by James Salanga. This story was copublished with Assigned Media. A New York Times podcast on ...