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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.

Wall Street Journal shirks apology for publishing anti-trans misinformation after Charlie Kirk shooting.

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Reckoning with the Federal Communications Commission’s history of structural racism Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.

As the Federal Communications Commission is making national headlines, here is a short @media2070.bsky.social essay I wrote in July for @objectivejournos.bsky.social on the racist origins of the FCC, broadcast regulations and the broadcast industry.

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."

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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Proud to have worked on this story. Journalism spends so much time focusing on other industries — it’s worth turning that focus onto ourselves and asking the same questions.

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.

reupping this for my journo friends in light of "operation midway blitz" starting: objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/how-...

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.

Historically, Supreme Court press corps have not treated the Court as a political branch…that needs to change.
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Does anyone want to review The Paper for
@objectivejournos.bsky.social? Kind of curious about how it'll match up to actual newsroom dynamics.

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.

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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Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they can’t When federal agents checked into a Pasadena hotel, they didn't expect hundreds of protesters and a day laborers’ band — now the tactic that kicked them out is spreading across LA.

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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.

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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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

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.

Journalists shouldn't take for granted how news coverage is used to justify life-altering political decisions.

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.)

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.)

"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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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.

"The families want to talk to journalists for justice, but the editors and the audiences want a story. "
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Mainstream newsrooms aren’t really covering the latest attack on gender-affirming care As anti-trans legislation continues to reach record levels, these publications are excluding accurate reporting about the stakes.

“As anti-trans legislation continues to reach record levels year over year, publications are choosing to not include accurate reporting on what’s at stake for trans people.”

I checked twice to make sure this wasn’t satire.

This moment shows why movement journalism matters "Movement journalism's purpose zero is challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation," Lewis Raven Wallace writes.

Movement journalism’s purpose zero: Challenging fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation. (shout-out to @dreanyc123.bsky.social for suggesting this purpose zero!) objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/this...

Five years later, the AP still inconsistently describes George Floyd’s murder The major newswire service continues to use passive voice when describing a crucial flashpoint of police violence.

"Though the murder was caught on video, resulting coverage from the Associated Press continued to refer to it as a 'death' in headlines, not a killing, including in their story on the officers’ firing."

Did Lyft cheat to win a $200 million LA bike share contract? LA transportation officials delayed a major contract decision amid explosive allegations surfaced about bid rigging and insider access.

Metro’s board of directors was set to vote Thursday on whether to award Lyft a $198 million, 11-year contract to run Metro Bike Share. The board pulled the vote without explanation.

Will prison journalism save democracy? From subversive spaces, prison journalists build muscles of resistance and perhaps a sort of tolerance against the repressive nature of opposing forces.

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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Opinion | Good questions about transgender care The authors of a new HHS report make a case against pediatric gender transition.

WashPo [10 May 25] -- Shocking endorsement by WashPo Editorial Board of 400-page anti-trans HHS attack on pediatric care: "careful and thorough... makes a legitimate case...clear and careful language... greater emphasis on psychotherapy in treating gender dysphoric youth." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The Case for Movement Journalism A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.

Movement journalism—journalism in service to liberation—can save us. Learn how by subscribing to my new limited-run series of columns for @objectivejournos.bsky.social, The Case for Movement Journalism. objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...

White House says no comment to reporters with pronouns in bio, in email to one such reporter Limiting press access through this policy is at the intersection of the administration's anti-press attitudes and transphobia.

"The White House said they will not be responding to reporters with pronouns in their signature — in an email to a reporter with pronouns in their signature."

Lots to criticize here from Maher and NPR in general, but ultimately, our national public media infrastructure is way too weak and barely has any public funding.

Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."

me for @slate.bsky.social

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You don't mean DEI The Trump administration doesn’t mean “Get rid of DEI," they mean “resegregation.” Journalists should say that.

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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.

"At the summit, there were as many white British media types as people of color."

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