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Oct 30, 2024 · 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 journalism can look like.
Q&A: Communities Beyond Elections - objectivejournalism.org
6 hours ago · Mainstream newsrooms often cover electoral politics by repeating politicians’ rhetoric and language. Newsrooms also often reduce communities to monolithic voting blocs — the youth vote, the Latino vote, and so on — whose everyday issues are only examined in relation to their importance in elections.
Objectivity “wars”: A move toward reimagining journalism
Jul 6, 2020 · There were several ways the conversation about objectivity in journalism continued throughout 2022, one of which was the Columbia Journalism Review’s September “Objectivity Wars” event. The discussion supplied questions for journalists to …
Who is Marty Baron talking to? - objectivejournalism.org
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The Objective is a nonprofit publication examining systems of power and inequity in journalism.
Objectivity and the scientific method won’t save journalism
Jun 15, 2020 · Newsroom leaders have been figuratively subtweeting, writing counter op-eds, and tsking about Wesley Lowery’s op-ed in The New York Times.Lowery outlines how newsrooms have time and time again interpreted “objectivity” as “neutrality,” usually to the detriment of marginalized communities.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Journalist - objectivejournalism.org
Dec 6, 2024 · Eduardo Montes-Bradley. In The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the stories that shaped his understanding of journalism and the stories that shape our world.He also comes to a conclusion that’s eluded too many journalists: Our biggest legacy media institutions and the language they use have failed us.
U.S. “objectivity” still favors Israeli narratives. Why?
1 day ago · The University of Pennsylvania Palestine solidarity encampment in April 2024. Photo courtesy of Kristine Villanueva. U.S. news coverage of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine has showed mainstream news media remaining steadfast in its devotion to principled neutrality. Both-side-isms are used as a method of covering the “full story.”
The ‘Palestine exception’ to press freedom - objectivejournalism.org
May 2, 2023 · Over the weekend, Israeli military forces raided the Al Jazeera Ramallah press office in Palestine’s West Bank, and broadcasted the raid live on TV, delivering an order for the office to remain shut for the next 45 days.Soldiers tore down a poster of the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera reporter Israeli forces killed in 2022.. (Forensic Architecture said it was an intentional ...
Two years of The Objective
Sep 22, 2022 · This month, The Objective is two years old. One of the great ironies in U.S. journalism is that transparency, contextualization, and self-reflection – all values often found in great reporting – have often been shunned by media executives when …
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