New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance ...

Photo of a billboard in North St. Louis by Adam Mahoney, shared with permission from Capital B. I have a simple answer for why I became an environmental journalist: George Floyd was murdered. It was ...

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

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

The Objective is a nonprofit newsroom examining systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their employees, how journalists interact with their community, and what new forms of ...

Free press advocates must rally against the Federal Communications Commission effort to limit incarcerated journalists’ ability to report.

Previous e-edition covers from Vida en el Valle and El Nuevo Herald accessed via the Wayback Machine. Collage by James Salanga. The latest round of McClatchy layoffs, announced Sept. 11, eliminated ...