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Dive into The Objective's projects past and present.
2020
Since 2020
A physical and digital magazine archiving the spectrum of efforts to make journalism more equitable since the 2020 “racial reckoning” across newsrooms.
Science Journalism Series
Mainstream science journalism, with notable exceptions, still fails to communicate the stakes of how science affects people. We commissioned stories looking at the shortcomings of the field and how journalists can learn from them.
Civic Media Series
What does it take to make news that doesn’t just inform, but helps people transform their communities? Our collaboration with News Futures features 14 practitioners on building local, participatory, and durable information systems over the next decade.
Reclaiming Democracy
What could a democracy news beat look like? This project explores how journalists can cover democracy through the people, communities, and institutions that shape it.
Food Media Reckoning
Three years after food media institutions pledged to do better, The Objective, in partnership with L.A. Taco, published a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food media — and what its future could look like when we look to its past.
Columns
Lewis Raven Wallace
The Case for Movement Journalism. A limited-run series defining movement journalism and why it matters that provides examples of what it looks like in practice. Written by Lewis Raven Wallace, author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity.
Our print magazines
Original reporting, commentary, interviews, and visual storytelling published in an annual edition worth keeping. Explore our latest issue and the archive.
