Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.

A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’ s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...

Courtesy of Brent Stirton/Getty Images. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In January 2023, 34-year-old Sarah Beth Clendaniel obtained a driver’s license for the first time. Allegedly next on ...

Objectivity in journalism is a rickety thing. When arguing about it — against or for it — the definition and the way it’s implemented is always shifting. Many of the conversations about objectivity ...

The Knight Foundation, which touches just about every area of journalism in the U.S., is negating its mission and hurting its grantees.

A growing list of journalists have been silenced for criticizing Israel’s military campaign and highlighting its deadly impact on Palestinians.

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.

Staffers of color say the investigative journalism nonprofit undervalues non-white reporters and is resistant to changing its ways.

A protester holds up a sign at a dance protest celebrating trans youth at the White House in 2017. Ted Eytan/Creative Commons. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. How did the New York Times ...

Sometimes you find yourself in the right moment and time to make a difference. Caitlin Dickerson started at NPR as an intern and moved on to report for the newsroom, where she won numerous awards for ...