Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.

Cierra Hinton on the imperative for media to use narrative as a tool to dismantle systemic oppression and redistribute power — instead of a device sustaining white supremacy and racism, classism, patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia, and xenophobia.

IRE’s diversity and inclusion committee interviewed journalism community leaders to find out.

Michael Hinman, a New York editor accused of bullying reporters, is no longer executive editor at Herald Community Newspapers. The change came days after The Objective published a story about a dozen reporters — mostly women — who worked under his leadership.

Errors and corrections in news stories about women’s Olympic boxing expose the assumptions our industry holds about gender, sports, and fairness.

Cierra Hinton on the imperative for media to use narrative as a tool to dismantle systemic oppression and redistribute power — instead of a device sustaining white supremacy and racism, classism, patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia, and xenophobia.

Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.

News organizations seem more concerned with policing their own reporters than they do holding powerful actors accountable.