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Edwin Chavez of San Quentin News receiving an award for second place in local news coverage. Photo by Marcus Casillas, provided courtesy of the Pollen Initiative. In the brightly-lit auditorium of ...

Nearly one in four trans people in the U.S. use Medicaid to access gender-affirming care. Nearly one in four trans people in the U.S. is at risk of having this care taken away due to the eleventh-hour ...

When a mass overdose event hospitalized nearly 30 people in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood in July, reporters descended upon the low-income Black community. Some photographed victims on gurneys ...

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Anti-ICE messages line the fence of a house across the street from where ICE killed a peaceful observer on Jan. 7. Photo by Claire Carlson. Reporting from the New York Times on a scandal implicating ...

This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the right ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Jersey Bee youth media workshop held at Rutgers University-Newark last year focused on producing a “Student’s Guide to School Board Elections.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Villafane for the Jersey Bee, ...

Photo by Jon S on Flickr. This story also appears in our newsletter, The Front Page, which examines systems of power and inequity in media. Subscribe here. Layoffs in journalism since 2022 have ...

Illustration by Frankie Huang/The Objective. This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food ...