There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance tactics.

Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.

Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.

Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.

Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.

A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.

Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear on the necessity of American Indians having a seat at the table to forge a new path in building independent Indigenous media.

We are at a pivotal moment. A shift in the tone and tenor of the conversation around the “local news crisis” has been happening for years, due much in part to the continued growth of the civic media ...

This piece is a part of The Objective’s Science Series and is funded by the National Association of Science Writers’ Peggy Girshman Idea Grants. While flames were ravaging small communities just days ...

Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.