"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 ...

Collage by James Salanga. Photo credits, clockwise starting from left: Screenshot from an Inquest Q&A with Christopher Blackwell; excerpt of an issue of The Prison News via JSTOR archives; the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baltimore Sun Guild flyers on an office billboard next to the edited screenshot from Baltimore Sun Guild members depicting the AI-generated political analyses in the Feb. 13 issue of the paper. Both ...

The Media 2070 team (from left to right: Anshantia “Tia” Oso, Joseph Torres, Venneikia Williams, Diamond Hardiman, Afton Paige). Photo courtesy of Tianna Manon. Update, Feb. 19: Media 2070 released ...