"We have to move in a certain way, but we will always tell the truth," Texas Southern University assistant professor Serbino Sandifer-Walker said.

The honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA's goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.

In 2020, newsrooms local and national — from the Kansas City Star to the Los Angeles Times and NPR — issued apologies for past racist coverage and pledged to commit themselves to more equitable ...

When I left the newsroom in 2023, I did not yet see the scope of what I would face as a freelancer. At the time, I knew freelancing would offer me flexibility to write more of the arts criticism I ...

Archival photo of journalists in the Radio-Canada/CBC newsroom in Montreal, Canada. Speech bubbles have text from the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2026 ethics week and Anthropic’s Claude ...

Three of the many Self Magazine articles discussing chronic illness and disability. Collage by James Salanga. This story was originally for Mother Jones and is republished with permission. Last week, ...

Image courtesy of Ravenous, logo by Sara Hartley. Sometimes, a chef will think: Oh, I wish I could run this restaurant with this philosophy of service and style. Then, they’ll meet a chef with a ...

Get The Objective in your inbox every week. “It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave-trading, and negro-hating land, a printing-press and paper permanently established ...

Black journalists have been especially impacted by broader industry shifts like layoffs, consolidation, and the targeting of diversity, equity, and inclusion, raising concerns about editorial ...

ProPublica Guild members picket in front of the newsroom’s office in downtown Chicago on April 8. James Salanga/The Objective After years of unionization efforts and conversations with management, ...

Headshot of Anita Varma by Mary Inhea Kang. Cover design by Chang Jae Lee. Both photos courtesy Varma. Looking at solidarity in journalism, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor Anita ...