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As the final installment of the civic media series with Mike Rispoli and allies, The Objective explores how catalyzing the civic media movement is our way out of the 'local news crisis'.

Learn more: objectivejournalism.org/2024/04/its-no…

'A new media movement in the United States is overdue; and we need to build one that is collaborative, equitable, and premised on the belief of treating journalism as the public good it is.' - Mike Rispoli and allies with The Objective
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Catalyzing civic media movement is our way out of the 'local news crisis' objectivejournalism.org/2024/04/its-no… via The Objective

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❤️‍🔥 Cerise Castle and the folks of Knock LA are trying to regain ownership of their journalism! Help put the pressure on!

Final piece in The Objective series on civic media: To address the 'local news crisis,' we need a collaborative and equitable movement that treats journalism as the public good it is and advocates for investing in communities long-ignored by legacy media. objectivejournalism.org/2024/04/its-no…

a lot of The Atlantic can be explained by remembering how Jeffrey Goldberg said out loud in 2019 how white men are the only ones capable of writing 10,000 word cover stories vox.com/2019/6/6/18655…

Seeing Theo Baker get published in The Atlantic reminded me of Lam Thuy Vo's essay on the demoralizing experiences she went through in order to get resources and support for her investigative reporting: objectivejournalism.org/2022/08/quanti…

Mona Chalabi on telling stories about Palestine through data theverge.com/24093294/mona-… via @Verge

Report for America, which funds of hundreds of local journalists, will no longer support positions at Gannett, Alden, or any newspapers owned by private equity or hedge funds because 'that business model isn’t the future for robust local news.' journal-isms.com/2024/03/j-grou…

There aren’t many investigative reporting guides particularly for tech and business journalists, so I started making my own! It’s a work in progress, but sharing version 1 widely in case other biz journalists can get something out of it, too. jessicakmathews.notion.site/A-business-rep…

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'...awards in journalism rely primarily on two factors: Knowledge and payment. ...If (reporters are) freelancers, or if their newsroom has limited funds, they’re left to shoulder the burden themselves.' mailchi.mp/objectivejourn…

Some news! Getting back in the saddle with a regular column I'm writing for Literary Hub called 'Journalism as a Front of War.' Will be writing essays 2x a month on the craft & ideology of journalism—& how we might dream of better possibilities for the form lithub.com/journalism-as-…

Well-written and super timely. Thank you Houreidja Tall.