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“Public access TV was social media before there was social media.” Antoine Haywood digs into how these participatory spaces empower communities and can revitalize local media.

Read more in The Objective’s Civic Media Series 👇
Public access television: ‘More than a soundbite’
Antoine Haywood on learning from community access television's roots in prosocial activism, public education, and civic communication.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Ayinde Merrill makes the case for service journalism: a news future where reporting doesn’t just “cover” communities – it empowers them.

Read the full article in our Civic Media Series 👇
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The future of news is about service, not sensationalism
Ayinde Merrill on what the future of news and information means to historically marginalized communities in New Jersey and across the U.S.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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🗞️✨Announcing our 2025 Civic Media Series: a digital + print magazine featuring essays from 14 practitioners who reimagine local news through the lens of civic media. Read our editors’ letter + stay tuned: articles dropping soon. 👀

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A letter from the Civic Media Magazine editors
The stories here show what’s possible when we reimagine local news not just as something to consume, but as a tool for community action.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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The very section that made Teen Vogue stand out amid the country’s major news sources for taking youth seriously and for its progressive coverage is now gone.
Vogue guts Teen Vogue Politics team
Vogue.com is merging with Teen Vogue, eliminating its politics section. Just one woman of color remains on Teen Vogue’s editorial staff.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to?

If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name?
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The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to?
If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name?
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October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Wall Street Journal shirks apology for publishing anti-trans misinformation after Charlie Kirk shooting.

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Wall Street Journal shirks apology for anti-trans misinformation
As right-wing efforts to connect trans people with violence escalate, journalists must be rigorous when covering anti-trans rhetoric.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don’t treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.
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What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions for the next two decades of nonprofit news and beyond. And we have to stop treating nonprofit status as "the fix."
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September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The Micro Division winner of the Breaking Barriers Award is Alexis Allison’s article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social s.bsky.social, “The Editor of a New York City Newspaper Bullied Reporters for Years. Then, He Was Promoted.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Ever had that "make it make sense?!" feeling when you're reading the news? Yeah. Me too. Conceiving of journalism as political education -- as the @kcdefender.bsky.social does so well -- is one solution and way forward. @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/make...
Make it make sense: movement media as political education
Even when our stories herald bad news, they can also help people make meaning and figure out our role in responding.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Historically, Supreme Court press corps have not treated the Court as a political branch…that needs to change.
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Journalists say: Cover the Supreme Court as the political body it is
The U.S. Supreme Court is doing law and politics in targeting the legal rights of the most marginalized. Coverage should reflect that.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Framing ICE coverage as just an immigration issue no longer meets the moment — especially, as many have weathered the fallout of raids, a new detention center, or surveillance tactics.

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How to ensure reporting on ICE goes beyond focusing on citizenship status
There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance tactics.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Nice piece by Jen Ramos Eisen in The Objective. @jenramose.online ‪@objectivejournos.bsky.social‬
A "Jim Crow" law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should've asked why they went back.
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.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A “Jim Crow” law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should’ve asked why they went back.
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A "Jim Crow" law made MLB leave Atlanta. Sports reporters should've asked why they went back.
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.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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baseball media whiffed on covering MLB's capitulation about having the All-Star Game at Truist Park leading up to the festivities. my latest for @objectivejournos.bsky.social: objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...
Yet the law was on the books when Commissioner Rob Manfred announced, to both criticism and fanfare, in Nov. 2023 that the All-Star Game would return to Atlanta, and is still on the books as of publishing. This incongruity was finally covered in more news stories after I asked Roberts about his 2021 comments and several articles mentioning the law. Roberts — who was supportive of the decision to move the game out of Atlanta — gave what seemed like a canned, PR-trained answer: “I’m not a politician. I do feel that everyone has their right to voice thoughts. But right now I just really choose to focus on the players and the game and be excited to be here.” “Sportswriting is access journalism,” a baseball industry source told me.
July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I spoke to @jenramose.online @objectivejournos.bsky.social about how flawed coverage of the return of the MLB All-Star Game, despite voter restriction laws still being on the books, is a logical conclusion to The Atlanta Way's crisis of legitimacy and the city's broader crisis of democracy.
But Atlanta-based editor and publisher Alex Ip says that from his own reporting and others’, local politicians have “repeatedly sidestepped popular will when it came to policing, transit, and infrastructure, and ignored protests against environmental injustices, pedestrian deaths, and federal job and funding cuts by the Trump administration. “Atlanta’s ruling class has worked overtime to commodify the city’s civil rights legacy for rich owners and clueless tourists,” he said, naming the city council’s warming shelter restrictions, the city’s lack of sidewalks, and a city encampment sweep that bulldozed Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man, to death to make way for dignitaries before MLK Day.“I would be surprised if democracy was on their radar, and that speaking up against the MLB’s decision to bring the All-Star Game back to Atlanta was even on their minds.”
July 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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this was, perhaps, the most telling, indicative, and damning thing of the state of baseball media — where is everyone else? my story in @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...
I spoke to many media members in the press box and on the field during All-Star Week. Many applauded me for asking Roberts about his 2021 stance; some told me that I was right for asking them “Why did no one cover this before the week started?” More importantly, I read people saying, “Why weren’t there more reporters asking about this?” And that’s the real question — where are they?
July 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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twenty-nine (29!!!) nyt stories were cited to support the state in the u.s. v skrmetti decision (h/t @assignedmedia.org for reporting for @objectivejournos.bsky.social) to further limit access to trans healthcare. just horrid horrid stuff objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-...
NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The New York Times was cited 29 times to justify the Supreme Court's decision limiting trans healthcare.

The decision leaves in place bans that have forced families of some trans kids to leave their homes to maintain access to the necessary treatments.
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NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
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June 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Journalists shouldn't take for granted how news coverage is used to justify life-altering political decisions.
NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare
Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Sometimes the moment in which journalism makes the most change is an intimate one. In my latest for @objectivejournos.bsky.social, I reflect on the responsibility of holding healing and catharsis as a storyteller. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-fo...
A focus on the process, not just product: Healing through hearing
Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Thanks to @objectivejournos.bsky.social for republishing my piece on journalistic objectivity at the protest: objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/jour...
Journalistic objectivity at the protest
Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with permission.)
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June 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"The families want to talk to journalists for justice, but the editors and the audiences want a story. "
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A focus on the process, not just product: Healing through hearing
Even when movement journalists can’t offer justice, we’re not just responsible for our stories, but for the ways in which we listen.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"By now most of us can agree that pure objectivity is a fiction; that those invoking it often use it as cover for expressing white or majoritarian perspectives."
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Journalistic objectivity at the protest
Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with permission.)
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June 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The threat to our stories of liberation and justice is real and ongoing. But through archiving, even if we lose our fights, the next generation has a shot at learning what we attempted and how, @lewispants.bsky.social writes. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-a...
'No act of journalism ... is too small': Creating necessary archives
Archives are the "slam dunk" purpose of movement journalism. What we create just has to archive the truth for the next generation.
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June 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM