One of U.S. nonprofit journalism's biggest funders no longer has an explicit section for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ...

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

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This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...

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