🗞️✨Announcing our 2025 Civic Media Series: a digital + print magazine featuring essays from 14 practitioners who reimagine local news through the lens of civic media. Read our editors’ letter + stay tuned: articles dropping soon. 👀 objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/a-le... #CivicMedia #Mediasky

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.

The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to? If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name? objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/the-...

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

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...

The Micro Division winner of the Breaking Barriers Award is Alexis Allison’s article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social s.bsky.social, “The Editor of a New York City Newspaper Bullied Reporters for Years. Then, He Was Promoted.”

Ever had that "make it make sense?!" feeling when you're reading the news? Yeah. Me too. Conceiving of journalism as political education -- as the @kcdefender.bsky.social does so well -- is one solution and way forward. @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/make...

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

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-...

Nice piece by Jen Ramos Eisen in The Objective. @jenramose.online ‪@objectivejournos.bsky.social‬

A “Jim Crow” law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should’ve asked why they went back. objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...

baseball media whiffed on covering MLB's capitulation about having the All-Star Game at Truist Park leading up to the festivities. my latest for @objectivejournos.bsky.social: objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...

I spoke to @jenramose.online @objectivejournos.bsky.social about how flawed coverage of the return of the MLB All-Star Game, despite voter restriction laws still being on the books, is a logical conclusion to The Atlanta Way's crisis of legitimacy and the city's broader crisis of democracy.

this was, perhaps, the most telling, indicative, and damning thing of the state of baseball media — where is everyone else? my story in @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...

twenty-nine (29!!!) nyt stories were cited to support the state in the u.s. v skrmetti decision (h/t @assignedmedia.org for reporting for @objectivejournos.bsky.social) to further limit access to trans healthcare. just horrid horrid stuff objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-...

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-...

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

Sometimes the moment in which journalism makes the most change is an intimate one. In my latest for @objectivejournos.bsky.social, I reflect on the responsibility of holding healing and catharsis as a storyteller. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-fo...

Thanks to @objectivejournos.bsky.social for republishing my piece on journalistic objectivity at the protest: 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...

"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 threat to our stories of liberation and justice is real and ongoing. But through archiving, even if we lose our fights, the next generation has a shot at learning what we attempted and how, @lewispants.bsky.social writes. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-a...

A new podcast from the New York Times left out patient stories that could have best illuminated its topic, those of trans youth but also of detransitioners, argues @evanurquhart.bsky.social. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

This piece was copublished with @objectivejournos.bsky.social, a rad news org with a focus on media criticism that you should definitely check out! objectivejournalism.org

Assigned Media's Evan Urquhart has the story of reporters playing hardball with a devastated family, and the voice of the young trans woman at the heart of the story who is speaking publicly for the first time. This story was published in partnership with @objectivejournos.bsky.social.

Check out @objectivejournos.bsky.social, a newsroom that focuses on examining systems of power and inequality in journalism. And subscribe to Assigned Media's free Friday digest to keep up with trans news from us and all over the web. Just enter your email in our pop up or the footer of any page.

I had the honor of being interviewed by James Salanga, co-director of The Objective, about why newsrooms may be continuing to use passive voice when describing police violence. #GeorgeFloyd

“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.”

Newsrooms that continue to use passive voice even when it’s clear who perpetrated violence may be doing so “out of mimicry and habit rather than strategy,” @karenyin.bsky.social, the author of The Conscious Style Guide told The Objective.

Movement journalism’s purpose zero: Challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation. How do you think journalism should meet this moment? 🤔 objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/this...

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...

great reporting from @hashtagjames.bsky.social for @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/whit...

What if the news we took in every day inspired us, helped us connect to one another, and gave us hope and vision for another world? 💭 ‪ Learn more, read @lewispants.bsky.social's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism." Subscribe today! ⬇️ objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...

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."

Newsrooms must urgently contextualize the Trump administration’s animosity toward speech supporting Palestine as not just an attack on the First Amendment but as part of the U.S.’s long history of suppressing solidarity for Palestinians’ rights.

The "Palestine exception" to free speech is a documented, decades-long pushback to supporting Palestinians that has settled across all fields of work, from education to journalism.

"As Trump’s attacks on press continue, the media ecosystem needs to reckon with oppression and censorship by reorienting itself toward real community protection, rather than complying in advance."

"Billionaires don’t usually mean ‘free markets’ when they say ‘free markets.’ They usually mean less regulation so they can exploit the market and shape it to give themselves more resources (often at the expense of workers)."

Semafor’s recent media summit had many ideas about how to restore trust – but not much discussion about how they track back to racial inequities.

Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press.

over at @objectivejournos.bsky.social, I wrote about how the language around international — often non-white and non-English speaking — players is generally dehumanizing and commodifying. Rōki Sasaki signing with the Dodgers was a more recent example of this objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/spor...

For @objectivejournos.bsky.social I wrote about the ethics of using social media posts as sources objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/the-...

Good to see a news outlet making sure reporters get informed consent from sources, particularly those in vulnerable situations, and prioritizing limiting harm caused through journalism (read about this in the latest newsletter from @objectivejournos.bsky.social) www.eltimpano.org/inside-el-ti...

Come on down y'all! I'll be moderating the first panel of the day, all about the value of freelance labor! Excited to be joined by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd from @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, Gabe Schneider from @objectivejournos.bsky.social and writer Jamie Lauren Keiles.

Outlets like @nytimes.com are downplaying the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.

“The paper amplifying mainstream anti-trans talking points acts as though it’s merely documenting the inevitable, rather than watching the seeds it planted bloom into full-blown institutional discrimination.” @parkermolloy.com at @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/lega...

I stepped a little out of my comfort zone to write a piece about media coverage of my beat during the Biden administration for @objectivejournos.bsky.social (thanks to @tanvi.bsky.social, @daralind.bsky.social, @aurabogado.bsky.social for talking with me!) 1 objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/bett...

"The second Trump administration comes amid an ever-rising tide of authoritarianism, borne out by surveillance and police violence at Palestine solidarity protests, the rise of Cop Cities across the country, and growing mask bans."