Attiah sat down with The Objective to discuss objectivity and Black representation at WaPo and mainstream media at large.

Movement journalism needs a theory of change in order to affect policy and practice. Who are you trying to make aware? Why?

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

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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In late January, the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals moved to reinstate Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding some merit to Sonmez’s claims that the paper illegally ...

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