Don Lemon and Joy Reid might be outliers among Black journalists going independent, starting a Substack, or freelancing.

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 ...

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their ...

An edit of the One World Trade Center, where the Condé Nast offices are located. Image by Praneeth Thalla, via Wikimedia Commons. Edits by James Salanga. Whether relationship advice on dating within ...

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 ...

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, ...

The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S REIMAGINE IT. The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity ...

An illustration from the Journalism + Design Lab. Visual credit to Kiss Me I’m Polish. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. Maybe it’s a journalist, but for many, newsrooms aren’t the only — or ...

A new framework from Journalism + Design Lab invites newsrooms to build on the abundance, diversity, and momentum already in our communities to strengthen local news. JOURNALISM IS BROKEN — LET'S ...