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Staff at Outlier Media and THE CITY NY share how quizzes can increase voters' confidence in civic participation.

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Laura Castañeda says the decision was “retaliation” from the paper’s parent company, Alden Global Capital, for a more diverse ...

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

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Leaving the notebook at home after 16 years at newspapers. (First published in Frank Shyong's Lunch Box and reprinted with ...

Civic Media Series The Objective, in partnership with Free Press and members of the Future of Local News Collective, is publishing personal essays from local news leaders across an emerging field.

This story also appeared as the top story in The Objective’s weekly newsletter, The Front Page. Subscribe here. Reckon News is shutting down and laying off 11 staffers. The newsroom, born in the U.S.

Despite holding themselves up as “objective” and “impartial” for generations, mainstream American newsrooms have almost always been defined by homogenous teams that fail to account for race, gender, ...

When DCist was shuttered for a second time earlier this year, several of its laid-off workers gathered for a mourning dinner. But the mood wasn’t completely despondent. Former DCist reporter Colleen ...