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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 11d

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?
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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?

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 22d

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.
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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."

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Institute for Nonprofit News @inn.org · Sep 11

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.”

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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

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.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Sep 5

Historically, Supreme Court press corps have not treated the Court as a political branch…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.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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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.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Jul 23

A “Jim Crow” law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should’ve 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 Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · Jul 17

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...

Yet the law was on the books when Commissioner Rob Manfred announced, to both criticism and fanfare, in Nov. 2023 that the All-Star Game would return to Atlanta, and is still on the books as of publishing. This incongruity was finally covered in more news stories after I asked Roberts about his 2021 comments and several articles mentioning the law.

Roberts — who was supportive of the decision to move the game out of Atlanta — gave what seemed like a canned, PR-trained answer: “I’m not a politician. I do feel that everyone has their right to voice thoughts. But right now I just really choose to focus on the players and the game and be excited to be here.”

“Sportswriting is access journalism,” a baseball industry source told me.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · Jul 17

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.

But Atlanta-based editor and publisher Alex Ip says that from his own reporting and others’, local politicians have “repeatedly sidestepped popular will when it came to policing, transit, and infrastructure, and ignored protests against environmental injustices, pedestrian deaths, and federal job and funding cuts by the Trump administration.

“Atlanta’s ruling class has worked overtime to commodify the city’s civil rights legacy for rich owners and clueless tourists,” he said, naming the city council’s warming shelter restrictions, the city’s lack of sidewalks, and a city encampment sweep that bulldozed Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man, to death to make way for dignitaries before MLK Day.“I would be surprised if democracy was on their radar, and that speaking up against the MLB’s decision to bring the All-Star Game back to Atlanta was even on their minds.”

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · Jul 17

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...

I spoke to many media members in the press box and on the field during All-Star Week. Many applauded me for asking Roberts about his 2021 stance; some told me that I was right for asking them “Why did no one cover this before the week started?”

More importantly, I read people saying, “Why weren’t there more reporters asking about this?” And that’s the real question — where are they?

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james @hashtagjames.bsky.social · Jul 4

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-...

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.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Jun 25

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.

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Gabe Schneider @gabemschneider.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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.

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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · Jun 20

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...

A focus on the process, not just product: Healing through hearing

Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.

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Frank Shyong @frankshyong.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks to @objectivejournos.bsky.social for republishing my piece on journalistic objectivity at the protest: objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/jour...

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.)

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Jun 20

"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 can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Jun 20

"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.)

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

'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.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Jun 13

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 — Assigned

Something must be wrong, they keep suggesting, but they can’t tell us what it is. And they didn’t uplift the stories of the trans youths whose care is under threat.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Jun 13

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

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Jun 5

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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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Jun 5

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.

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