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Wall Street Journal shirks apology for publishing anti-trans misinformation after Charlie Kirk shooting.
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Wall Street Journal shirks apology for anti-trans misinformation
As right-wing efforts to connect trans people with violence escalate, journalists must be rigorous when covering anti-trans rhetoric.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall-street-journal-shirks-apology-for-publishing-anti-trans-misinformation-after-charlie-kirk-shooting/
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What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for? We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that donāt treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.
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What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions for the next two decades of nonprofit news and beyond. And we have to stop treating nonprofit status as "the fix."
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/what-is-nonprofit-news-infrastructure-solving-for/
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The Micro Division winner of the Breaking Barriers Award is Alexis Allisonās article for
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, āThe Editor of a New York City Newspaper Bullied Reporters for Years. Then, He Was Promoted.ā
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Lewis Raven Wallace
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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
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Make it make sense: movement media as political education
Even when our stories herald bad news, they can also help people make meaning and figure out our role in responding.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/make-it-make-sense-movement-media-as-political-education/
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Historically, Supreme Court press corps have not treated the Court as a political branchā¦that needs to change.
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Journalists say: Cover the Supreme Court as the political body it is
The U.S. Supreme Court is doing law and politics in targeting the legal rights of the most marginalized. Coverage should reflect that.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/the-supreme-court-is-political-report-on-it-like-it-is/
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Framing ICE coverage as just an immigration issue no longer meets the moment ā especially, as many have weathered the fallout of raids, a new detention center, or surveillance tactics.
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How to ensure reporting on ICE goes beyond focusing on citizenship status
There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance tactics.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/how-to-ensure-reporting-on-ice-goes-beyond-focusing-on-citizenship-status/
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Mark Jacob
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Nice piece by Jen Ramos Eisen in The Objective.
@jenramose.online
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A "Jim Crow" law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should've asked why they went back.
Coverage of the All-Star Gameās return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the gameās leaving in 2021.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/media-shouldnt-let-mlbs-capitulation-on-the-all-star-game-go-unnoticed/
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A āJim Crowā law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters shouldāve asked why they went back.
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A "Jim Crow" law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should've asked why they went back.
Coverage of the All-Star Gameās return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the gameās leaving in 2021.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/media-shouldnt-let-mlbs-capitulation-on-the-all-star-game-go-unnoticed/
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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
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Alex Ip čęø é
2 months ago
I spoke to
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@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.
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this was, perhaps, the most telling, indicative, and damning thing of the state of baseball media ā where is everyone else? my story in
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james
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twenty-nine (29!!!) nyt stories were cited to support the state in the u.s. v skrmetti decision (h/t
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for reporting for
@objectivejournos.bsky.social
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NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-york-times-cited-29-times-to-justify-decision-limiting-trans-healthcare/
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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.
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NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-york-times-cited-29-times-to-justify-decision-limiting-trans-healthcare/
3 months ago
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Journalists shouldn't take for granted how news coverage is used to justify life-altering political decisions.
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NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-york-times-cited-29-times-to-justify-decision-limiting-trans-healthcare/
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Lewis Raven Wallace
3 months ago
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.
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A focus on the process, not just product: Healing through hearing
Even when movement journalists canāt offer justice, weāre not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-focus-on-the-process-not-just-product-healing-through-hearing/
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Frank Shyong
3 months ago
Thanks to
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for republishing my piece on journalistic objectivity at the protest:
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Journalistic objectivity at the protest
Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with permission.)
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/journalistic-objectivity-at-the-protest/
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"The families want to talk to journalists for justice, but the editors and the audiences want a story. "
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A focus on the process, not just product: Healing through hearing
Even when movement journalists canāt offer justice, weāre not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-focus-on-the-process-not-just-product-healing-through-hearing/
3 months ago
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"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."
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Journalistic objectivity at the protest
Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with permission.)
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/journalistic-objectivity-at-the-protest/
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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
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'No act of journalism ... is too small': Creating necessary archives
Archives are the "slam dunk" purpose of movement journalism. What we create just has to archive the truth for the next generation.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-act-of-journalism-is-too-small-creating-necessary-archives/
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Assigned Media
4 months ago
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
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A New York Times Podcast on Youth Trans Care Leaves Out the Patients ā Assigned
Something must be wrong, they keep suggesting, but they canāt tell us what it is. And they didnāt uplift the stories of the trans youths whose care is under threat.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/new-york-times-leaves-patients-out-of-podcast
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This piece was copublished with
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, a rad news org with a focus on media criticism that you should definitely check out!
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Home ā The Objective
Donate to help The Objective hold journalism institutions accountable and help make space for new ones.
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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
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Check out
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, 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.
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Karen Yin | The Conscious Style Guide
4 months ago
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
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Gabe Schneider
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āAs anti-trans legislation continues to reach record levels year over year, publications are choosing to not include accurate reporting on whatās at stake for trans people.ā
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Mainstream newsrooms arenāt really covering the latest attack on gender-affirming care
As anti-trans legislation continues to reach record levels, these publications are excluding accurate reporting about the stakes.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/mainstream-newsrooms-arent-really-covering-the-latest-attack-on-gender-affirming-care/
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Newsrooms that continue to use passive voice even when itās clear who perpetrated violence may be doing so āout of mimicry and habit rather than strategy,ā
@karenyin.bsky.social
, the author of The Conscious Style Guide told The Objective.
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Five years later, the AP still inconsistently describes George Floydās murder
The major newswire service continues to use passive voice when describing a crucial flashpoint of police violence.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/five-years-later-the-ap-still-inconsistently-describes-george-floyds-murder/
4 months ago
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Movement journalismās purpose zero: Challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation. How do you think journalism should meet this moment? š¤
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This moment shows why movement journalism matters
"Movement journalism's purpose zero is challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation," Lewis Raven Wallace writes.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/this-moment-shows-why-movement-journalism-matters/
4 months ago
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Will prison journalism save democracy? Prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces.
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Will prison journalism save democracy?
From subversive spaces, prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/will-prison-journalism-save-democracy/
4 months ago
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rae deng
5 months ago
great reporting from
@hashtagjames.bsky.social
for
@objectivejournos.bsky.social
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White House says no comment to reporters with pronouns in bio, in email to one such reporter
Limiting press access through this policy is at the intersection of the administration's anti-press attitudes and transphobia.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/white-house-says-no-comment-to-reporters-with-pronouns-in-bio-in-email-to-one-such-reporter/?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
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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? š āŖ Learn more, read
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's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism." Subscribe today! ā¬ļø
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The Case for Movement Journalism
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.
https://objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for-movement-journalism/
5 months ago
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Lewis Raven Wallace
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Movement journalismājournalism in service to liberationācan save us. Learn how by subscribing to my new limited-run series of columns for
@objectivejournos.bsky.social
, The Case for Movement Journalism.
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The Case for Movement Journalism
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.
https://objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for-movement-journalism/
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"The White House said they will not be responding to reporters with pronouns in their signature ā in an email to a reporter with pronouns in their signature."
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White House says no comment to reporters with pronouns in bio, in email to one such reporter
Limiting press access through this policy is at the intersection of the administration's anti-press attitudes and transphobia.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/white-house-says-no-comment-to-reporters-with-pronouns-in-bio-in-email-to-one-such-reporter/
5 months ago
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Newsrooms must urgently contextualize the Trump administrationās animosity toward speech supporting Palestine as not just an attack on the First Amendment but as part of the U.S.ās long history of suppressing solidarity for Palestiniansā rights.
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Government attacks on Palestinian human rights speech aren't new
Newsrooms must contextualize the Trump administrationās animosity toward Palestine solidarity as part of a long-time U.S. government pattern.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/03/government-attacks-on-palestinian-human-rights-speech-are-part-of-a-longer-pattern/
6 months ago
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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.
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Government attacks on Palestinian human rights speech aren't new
Newsrooms must contextualize the Trump administrationās animosity toward Palestine solidarity as part of a long-time U.S. government pattern.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/03/government-attacks-on-palestinian-human-rights-speech-are-part-of-a-longer-pattern/
6 months ago
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"As Trumpās 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."
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Don't conflate journalistic caution, care with advance compliance
As Trump attacks journalism, the media ecosystem needs to reorient itself toward real community protection, rather than complying in advance.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/03/dont-conflate-journalistic-caution-care-with-advance-compliance/
6 months ago
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"Billionaires donāt usually mean āfree marketsā when they say āfree markets.ā 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)."
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Democracy can die in broad daylight, too
Jeff Bezosā suppression of The Postās opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/democracy-can-die-in-broad-daylight-too/
7 months ago
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Semaforās recent media summit had many ideas about how to restore trust ā but not much discussion about how they track back to racial inequities.
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Semafor's forum on media trust forum doesn't substantively address racial disparities
Semaforās recent media summit had many ideas about how to restore trust ā but not much discussion about how they track back to racial inequities.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/03/semafors-forum-on-media-trust-forum-doesnt-substantively-address-racial-disparities/
7 months ago
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Jeff Bezosā suppression of The Postās opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press.
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Democracy can die in broad daylight, too
Jeff Bezosā suppression of The Postās opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/democracy-can-die-in-broad-daylight-too/
7 months ago
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jen ramos-eisen šµš
8 months ago
over at
@objectivejournos.bsky.social
, I wrote about how the language around international ā often non-white and non-English speaking ā players is generally dehumanizing and commodifying. RÅki Sasaki signing with the Dodgers was a more recent example of this
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Sports media shouldnāt dehumanize international players
Reporting often falls short in critiquing Major League Baseball as a microcosm of labor migration. In the wake of the current presidential administrationās immigration raids, journalists need to be mo...
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/sports-media-shouldnt-dehumanize-international-players/
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Sonia Weiser
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For
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I wrote about the ethics of using social media posts as sources
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The ethics of social media sourcing in an age of misinformation
Social media sourcing as Meta dismantles fact-checking initiatives and generative artificial intelligence proliferates.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/the-ethics-of-social-media-sourcing-in-an-age-of-misinformation/
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Kate Morrissey, Journalist
7 months ago
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
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www.eltimpano.org/inside-el-ti...
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Protecting immigrant sources
How El TĆmpanoās newsroom will protect our immigrant sources in 2025.
https://www.eltimpano.org/inside-el-timpano/protecting-immigrant-sources/?mc_cid=fbcf5d002c&mc_eid=88a2a202af
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Ann Marie Awad
7 months ago
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.
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Outlets like
@nytimes.com
are downplaying the Trump administrationās latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.
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Jonathan Dresner
8 months ago
āThe paper amplifying mainstream anti-trans talking points acts as though itās merely documenting the inevitable, rather than watching the seeds it planted bloom into full-blown institutional discrimination.ā
@parkermolloy.com
at
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Legacy media helped create this anti-trans moment
Mainstream newsrooms like the New York Times downplay Trump's latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/legacy-media-helped-create-this-anti-trans-moment-now-theyre-reporting-on-it/
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Kate Morrissey, Journalist
8 months ago
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
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@daralind.bsky.social
,
@aurabogado.bsky.social
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Cover migrants as people, not political props
During the Biden administration, reportersā assumptions about immigrants impeded nuanced coverage about migrant and border policy.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/better-immigration-reporting-starts-by-questioning-assumptions-about-migration/?mc_cid=45edab8d45&mc_eid=88a2a202af
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"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."
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āWe have collective powerā: Advice for journalists on covering the next Trump presidency
Journalists who have previously reported news under Trumpās first term offer resources, frameworks, and advice to prepare for what's to come.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2024/11/we-have-collective-power-advice-for-journalists-on-covering-the-next-trump-presidency/
9 months ago
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āI think journalism has an America-first problem, where they [journalists] perceive the institutions of the state, all the way down to the local level ⦠as infallible, as somehow on high ground with moral standing"
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āWe have collective powerā: Advice for journalists on covering the next Trump presidency
Journalists who have previously reported news under Trumpās first term offer resources, frameworks, and advice to prepare for what's to come.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2024/11/we-have-collective-power-advice-for-journalists-on-covering-the-next-trump-presidency/
9 months ago
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Incarcerated writers, lacking e-mail and Internet access, mailed handwritten and typewritten drafts to a team of media workers convincing editors to publish them.
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Why we need prison journalism more than ever
If we lose incarcerated journalists, we lose a whole voice from the conversation.
https://objectivejournalism.org/2024/10/why-we-need-prison-journalism-more-than-ever
9 months ago
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Become a member before the end of the year and get your poster!
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