Context, citation when reporting on Palestine solidarity actions is crucial
Uplifting the student journalists covering the Barnard/Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
About The Objective
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.
CIVIC MEDIA
Jesse Hardman: “Divest from the ‘news desert’ framework — grow information gardens”
Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.
Cierra Brown Hinton: “We need a media ecosystem that urges justice”
Cierra Hinton on the imperative for media to use narrative as a tool to dismantle systemic oppression and redistribute power — instead of a device sustaining white supremacy and racism, classism, patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia, and xenophobia.
MEDIA WORKERS
‘No long-term vision’: after layoffs, staffers say L.A. Times lacks plan for future
After one of the largest layoffs in Times history, journalists fear impact on newsroom diversity and coverage amid their union’s fight for a fairer outcome.
After Kevin Merida’s surprise exit, will LA Times’ new editor listen to the paper’s owner or its workers?
Despite tributes to the editor pouring in from industry colleagues, cracks had emerged in his image among some of his own employees – months before his exit.
STORY FRAME
Cierra Brown Hinton: “We need a media ecosystem that urges justice”
Cierra Hinton on the imperative for media to use narrative as a tool to dismantle systemic oppression and redistribute power — instead of a device sustaining white supremacy and racism, classism, patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia, and xenophobia.
Stop calling it a ‘culture war’: The case for scrapping the phrase in education coverage
Why “education is a democracy beat,” and recommendations for better covering it from the 2023 Democracy Summit.
INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Why journalists must speak out about Gaza
Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.
Israel’s bombing campaign on Gaza is a test for journalism. Mainstream U.S. outlets are failing.
News organizations seem more concerned with policing their own reporters than they do holding powerful actors accountable.
