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There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance ...
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.
Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.
Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.
Laura Castañeda says the decision was “retaliation” from the paper’s parent company for a more diverse opinion page. Her firing comes amid a struggle for editorial independence at the Union-Tribune, ...
Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.
A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.
Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.
Richard Young on the possibilities for expanding and diversifying civic participation when changing how we think about local news.
We are at a pivotal moment. A shift in the tone and tenor of the conversation around the “local news crisis” has been happening for years, due much in part to the continued growth of the civic media ...
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.
Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.