The Feb. 5 rally in support of laid-off Washington Post workers. Photo via Wikimedia Commons user skdb. That means, Felton said in a post on X, “the team covering America beyond D.C. is now 90% white.

The honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA's goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and ...

In 2020, newsrooms local and national — from the Kansas City Star to the Los Angeles Times and NPR — issued apologies for past racist coverage and pledged to commit themselves to more equitable ...

Now-independent journalist Joy Reid at NBC Politicon in 2018. Photo via Wikimedia Commons and mouse cursor via Siemens. While on vacation, Amber Ferguson received a generic email that would alter the ...

Archival photo of journalists in the Radio-Canada/CBC newsroom in Montreal, Canada. Speech bubbles have text from the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2026 ethics week and Anthropic’s Claude ...

Three of the many Self Magazine articles discussing chronic illness and disability. Collage by James Salanga. This story was originally for Mother Jones and is republished with permission. Last week, ...

An edit of the One World Trade Center, where the Condé Nast offices are located. Image by Praneeth Thalla, via Wikimedia Commons. Edits by James Salanga. Whether relationship advice on dating within ...

Get The Objective in your inbox every week. “It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave-trading, and negro-hating land, a printing-press and paper permanently established ...

Nā Leo o Papakōlea Firewise‘s second annual Emergency Preparedness Day in December 2025. Courtesy of Tyler Sonnemaker, Kaheāwai Media. Anuhea Kāneali‘i’s family has cared for the Papakōlea homestead ...

Headshot of Anita Varma by Mary Inhea Kang. Cover design by Chang Jae Lee. Both photos courtesy Varma. Looking at solidarity in journalism, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor Anita ...

Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I’m grateful for all the thoughtful, smart writers we’ve been able to work with this past year, and for those who have published the media criticism and ...