Whether it is our national forests, subway systems, or the fire department, we as a country accept that certain public trusts ...

Hyperlocal and local journalists like me tell stories for smaller communities that are important to the people in these towns ...

Michael Swerdlow on the necessity of publicly funding the news media. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S REIMAGINE IT. The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in ...

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

Andrea D. Wenzel on reimagining an equitable, cooperative, and sustainable local media system amid overlapping crises.

Jennie Rose Halperin on the need to invest in underexplored partnerships between civic media makers and libraries as a clear ...

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, ...

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 ...

Raskin’s critic photo. Photo by Allisyn K. Morgan. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and ...

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 ...