A non-comprehensive list of The Objective’s co-directors and readers’ picks for media coverage and commentary this year.

This year, the historic awards — "Pulitzers" of prison journalism — resumed thanks to Pollen Initiative and Southern Illinois ...

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their ...

Rebuild Local News has proposed enacting “replanting” policies to slow this troubling trend. Such policies would incentivize ...

Whether it is our national forests, subway systems, or the fire department, we as a country accept that certain public trusts ...

Michael Swerdlow on the necessity of publicly funding the news media. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S REIMAGINE IT. The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in ...

Hyperlocal and local journalists like me tell stories for smaller communities that may not have “national significance”, but are important to the people in these towns and areas. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN ...

Photo courtesy of Jalen Wade. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. But my own job search and my work as an associate editor for College Park Here & Now reinforces what the Medill School of ...