As libraries face Trump's targeting, community archives model how journalists can preserve narratives misrepresented by ...

Co-founders Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas on the new worker-owned newsroom and covering reproductive justice in this ...

Movement journalists don’t attempt to connect to people in order to sell to them, but view this connection as a mission unto ...

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.

Civic Media Series The Objective, in partnership with Free Press and members of the Future of Local News Collective, is publishing personal essays from local news leaders across an emerging field.

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their employees, how journalists interact with their community, and what new forms of ...

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.

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.

Discussing cultural appreciation and appropriation is also about broader questions of who can get a platform to share food — and who profits.

This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food media — and what its future could look like ...