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If you have a story you haven't been able to find a home for that covers marginalized journalists and audiences in American newsrooms, please pitch us! @studyhallxyz @WritersofColor
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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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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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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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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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Newsrooms that continue to use passive voice even when it’s clear who perpetrated violence may be doing so “out of mimicry and habit rather than strategy,” @KarenYin, the author of @ConsciousStyles, told The Objective.
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The major newswire service continues to use passive voice when describing a crucial flashpoint of police violence.
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Movement journalism’s purpose zero: Challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation. How do you think journalism should meet this moment? 🤔.
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"Movement journalism's purpose zero is challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation," Lewis Raven Wallace writes.
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Will prison journalism save democracy?.Prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces.
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From subversive spaces, prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces.
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What if the news we took in every day inspired us, helped us connect to one another, and gave us hope and vision for another world? 💭. Learn more, read @LewisPants's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism.". Subscribe today! ⬇️.
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Three years after food media institutions pledged to do better, The Objective is publishing a series about the holes that still exist in food media.
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For journalists, U.S. government data deletion should reveal gaps and prompt questions. Remember, data has never been “objective.”.
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Data has never been "objective." This moment of journalistic outcry urges critical analysis about who's left out of datasets.
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The ban on replies — however porous — sits at the intersection of the administration's anti-press attitudes and attempts to systemically erase gender diversity.
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Limiting press access through this policy is at the intersection of the administration's anti-press attitudes and transphobia.
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For improving coverage about trans people and trans issues, over the past 5 years, @TransJA has worked on and revised a style guide for journalists to do just that:
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The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect...
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And earlier this year, @ParkerMolloy highlighted the ways legacy newsrooms have created the current anti-trans moment and the importance of holding them accountable:
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Major mainstream newspapers like The New York Times downplay the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.
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In 2023, @AssignedMedia articulated the need for more journalists to accurately and thoughtfully cover anti-trans laws:
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Reporters run the risk of not successfully communicating to the public the sheer scope and cruelty of the ongoing attack on trans people’s rights.
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Newsrooms must urgently contextualize the Trump administration’s animosity toward speech supporting Palestine as not just an attack on the First Amendment but as part of the U.S.’s long history of suppressing solidarity for Palestinians’ rights.
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Newsrooms must contextualize the Trump administration’s animosity toward Palestine solidarity as part of a long-time U.S. government pattern.
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The "Palestine exception" to free speech is a documented, decades-long pushback to supporting Palestinians that has settled across all fields of work, from education to journalism.
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Newsrooms must contextualize the Trump administration’s animosity toward Palestine solidarity as part of a long-time U.S. government pattern.
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"As Trump’s attacks on press continue, the media ecosystem needs to reckon with oppression and censorship by reorienting itself toward real community protection, rather than complying in advance."
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As Trump attacks journalism, the media ecosystem needs to reorient itself toward real community protection, rather than complying in advance.
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"Billionaires don’t usually mean ‘free markets’ when they say ‘free markets.’ They usually mean less regulation so they can exploit the market and shape it to give themselves more resources (often at the expense of workers)."
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Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press
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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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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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Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press.
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Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press
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RT @davidfolkenflik: NEWS: .More than 75,000 Washington Post subscribers have canceled subscriptions since owner Jeff Bezos overhauled its….
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
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Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press.
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Jeff Bezos’ suppression of The Post’s opinion section marks a significant blow to a declining mainstream press
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