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Government attacks on Palestinian human rights speech are part of a longer pattern
Newsrooms must urgently contextualize the Trump administration’s animosity toward speech supporting Palestine as not just an ...
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Media Matters report on conservative media dominance reveals what progressive donors don’t want to hear
Perhaps the most insidious aspect of this takeover is how right-wing content has seeped into supposedly non-political spaces. The Media Matters analysis found that 72% of online shows with an ...
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Don’t conflate journalistic caution, care with advance compliance
As Trump attacks journalism, the media ecosystem needs to reorient itself toward real community protection, rather than ...
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Semafor’s forum on media trust forum doesn’t substantively address racial disparities
Semafor’s recent media summit had many ideas about how to restore trust – but not much discussion about how they track back to racial inequities.
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Democracy can die in broad daylight, too
Get The Objective in your inbox every week. And just like that, there was no more old textile museum in Northwest DC. Instead, in 2020, there was Jeff Bezos’ 25-bathroom-strong house. Now, in 2025, ...
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Balancing credibility and harm: ‘You have to ask yourself,’ expert says.
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Why Purdue’s student newspaper erased protesters’ names
From left, Stephen Solomon, Stephen Adler, Sheila Coronel and Yezen Saadah talk about ethical choices student journalists have to make at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University ...