Legacy journalism on the Hawaiian Islands has long excluded Native Hawaiians. New community-stewarded media looks to change ...

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 ...

In 2016, when North Carolina Republicans passed the first bathroom bill in the United States, H B 2, the backlash was immediate: Corporations boycotted, people protested, and the bill’s champion, ...

Edited screenshot, with original text from the “About” page of the Knight Foundation from Sep. 17, 2025. The Knight Foundation has edited its “About” page to remove its diversity, equity, and ...

Mike Rispoli testifying in the New Jersey Statehouse. Photo by Tim Karr, courtesy of Free Press. Illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. This piece is part of ...

From left to right: Aiyana Ishmael, Rainesford Stauffer, Alma Avalle. Photos courtesy of their respective owners. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In 2020, I pitched an interview with young ...

When a mass overdose event hospitalized nearly 30 people in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood in July, reporters descended upon the low-income Black community. Some photographed victims on gurneys ...

Get The Objective in your inbox every week. The Objective was founded, this year, for a specific reason: To provide reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has ...

Screenshot from the editor’s note appended to the Wall Street Journal’s initial coverage of the bullet’s inscriptions. Photo of Wall Street Journal corporate headquarters by John Wisniewski via Flickr ...

At a recent dinner party, I mentioned that I had co-founded a nonprofit local newsroom and that much of my work over the last decade has been adjacent to, if not squarely in, the nonprofit news space.

Two cat photos (left: Dr. Abraham Horatio Pickles, of Philadelphia bookstore The Book Trader; right: Sheldon of the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School) from Forman’s reporting. Photos by Beatrice ...