"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

@gabemschneider.bsky.social: “How the Times covers individual stories, whose deaths it chooses to prioritize, and whose voices it centers, are worth scrutinizing.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...

The willingness to obey is incomprehensible to me. objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...

I wrote about the New York Times’ coverage of Gaza for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

happy #movementmediamonday! movement media has helped me stay hopeful in the face of mainstream news' flaws, so editing @lewispants.bsky.social’s series on movement journalism for @objectivejournos.bsky.social has been a joy. their latest column is out today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

The very section that made Teen Vogue stand out amid the country’s major news sources for taking youth seriously and for its progressive coverage is now gone.

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Wall Street Journal shirks apology for publishing anti-trans misinformation after Charlie Kirk shooting. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall...

As the Federal Communications Commission is making national headlines, here is a short @media2070.bsky.social essay I wrote in July for @objectivejournos.bsky.social on the racist origins of the FCC, broadcast regulations and the broadcast industry.

What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for? We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don’t treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/what...

Proud to have worked on this story. Journalism spends so much time focusing on other industries — it’s worth turning that focus onto ourselves and asking the same questions.

reupping this for my journo friends in light of "operation midway blitz" starting: objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/how-...

Historically, Supreme Court press corps have not treated the Court as a political branch…that needs to change. objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/the-...

Does anyone want to review The Paper for @objectivejournos.bsky.social? Kind of curious about how it'll match up to actual newsroom dynamics.

Framing ICE coverage as just an immigration issue no longer meets the moment — especially, as many have weathered the fallout of raids, a new detention center, or surveillance tactics. objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/how-...

The New York Times was cited 29 times to justify the Supreme Court's decision limiting trans healthcare. The decision leaves in place bans that have forced families of some trans kids to leave their homes to maintain access to the necessary treatments. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-...

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Journalists shouldn't take for granted how news coverage is used to justify life-altering political decisions.

Thanks to @objectivejournos.bsky.social for republishing my piece on journalistic objectivity at the protest: objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/jour...

"By now most of us can agree that pure objectivity is a fiction; that those invoking it often use it as cover for expressing white or majoritarian perspectives." objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/jour...

"The families want to talk to journalists for justice, but the editors and the audiences want a story. " objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-fo...

“As anti-trans legislation continues to reach record levels year over year, publications are choosing to not include accurate reporting on what’s at stake for trans people.”

I checked twice to make sure this wasn’t satire.

Movement journalism’s purpose zero: Challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation. (shout-out to @dreanyc123.bsky.social for suggesting this purpose zero!) objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/this...

"Though the murder was caught on video, resulting coverage from the Associated Press continued to refer to it as a 'death' in headlines, not a killing, including in their story on the officers’ firing."

Metro’s board of directors was set to vote Thursday on whether to award Lyft a $198 million, 11-year contract to run Metro Bike Share. The board pulled the vote without explanation.

Will prison journalism save democracy? Prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces. objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/will...

WashPo [10 May 25] -- Shocking endorsement by WashPo Editorial Board of 400-page anti-trans HHS attack on pediatric care: "careful and thorough... makes a legitimate case...clear and careful language... greater emphasis on psychotherapy in treating gender dysphoric youth." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Movement journalism—journalism in service to liberation—can save us. Learn how by subscribing to my new limited-run series of columns for @objectivejournos.bsky.social, The Case for Movement Journalism. objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...

"The White House said they will not be responding to reporters with pronouns in their signature — in an email to a reporter with pronouns in their signature."

Lots to criticize here from Maher and NPR in general, but ultimately, our national public media infrastructure is way too weak and barely has any public funding.

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now." me for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

"At the summit, there were as many white British media types as people of color."

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

I wrote about how there is no room for outlets, and newspaper owners, that undermine the basic democratic principles we all need to live with dignity.

"'Democracy Dies in Darkness' was never a stern word of warning; it’s always been my end goal." 😔

Pasadena pays over $600K annually for ShotSpotter. But most calls lead to nothing. In fact, ShotSpotter has missed fatal shootings, and routinely misidentified fireworks and other sounds.

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

An upcoming SCOTUS case could make it harder for disabled kids and their families to sue schools for disability discrimination. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The president & the people working for him aren’t discussing a pithy acronym, but the unmaking of integration. Journalists are... writing about who this country gets to be for: White or multiracial. Able-bodied or disabled..." @gabemschneider.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/you-...

I wrote about how journalists shouldn’t write about “eliminating DEI” without explaining the clear outcome: resegregation.

The Washington D.C. Court of Appeals moved to reinstate Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding some merit to Sonmez’s claims that the paper illegally discriminated against her.

LA renters are getting limited eviction protections post fires — The latest on what’s being done, proposed, and what tenant advocates are calling for. lapublicpress.org/2025/01/la-r...

Greatest American aviation disaster of the past 15 years and before the bodies are all even recovered, the White House is declaring a hunt for scapegoats to blame in a way that can justify their desired purges of the federal government.