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.

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Fort Worth Reporters Guild will vote on unionization next week after management decided not to voluntarily recognize the ...

The Media 2070 team (from left to right: Anshantia “Tia” Oso, Joseph Torres, Venneikia Williams, Diamond Hardiman, Afton Paige). Photo courtesy of Tianna Manon. Update, Feb. 19: Media 2070 released ...

Since coming into the White House last January, the Donald Trump administration has been cracking down on initiatives for diversity, equity, and inclusion across nonprofit, public, and private sectors ...

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 ...

A Jersey Bee youth media workshop held at Rutgers University-Newark last year focused on producing a “Student’s Guide to School Board Elections.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Villafane for the Jersey Bee, ...

This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...

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 ...