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Four and a half years later, The Objective is still here. What’s next?

2 months ago | objectivejournalism.org | Gabe Schneider |James Salanga

With your help, we raised over $16,600 during our end-of-year fundraiser.What are we going to do with your money? We’re a small non-profit publication focusing on media criticism and reporting — specifically accounting for race, gender, class, disability, and sexuality. From 2020-2024, our leadership team was volunteer, and only writers were paid per story. Our budget is around $100,000 (meaning we raised about a sixth of that). That’s a big jump from 2020, when our budget was $0.
Still Here, January 17: Links and transcript

Jan 17, 2025 | thesicktimes.org | James Salanga

As wildfires ravage the greater Los Angeles area, COVID-19 mutual aid groups have jumped to action to distribute respirators and air purifiers to minimize the impact of wildfire smoke (and COVID!) on residents and evacuees. Freelance reporter and Long COVID patient advocate Sam Rhodehamel talks with producer James Salanga and co-hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets about the groups filling public health gaps to keep residents protected during the devastating wildfires.
The reporters who disrupted Anthony Blinken aren't "hecklers"

Jan 17, 2025 | objectivejournalism.org | James Salanga

On the eve of a three-phase ceasefire agreement that could bring some hope to Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid, press conferences are the time to “hold power to account.”But yesterday, that’s not what happened: Two reporters were removed from Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press briefing after asking questions about the United States’ financial and diplomatic support of Israel during the Biden administration.
A 2025 book list for contextualizing and reimagining coverage

Jan 14, 2025 | rjionline.org | James Salanga

As Trump assumes the presidency again, there’s no better time to look back at journalism’s history to understand the field’s faults and flawsIn 2025, the clock is turning back: President-elect Donald Trump, who held a four-year term at the country’s top office, will assume it again. But things have changed since 2016.
Still Here, January 10: Links and transcript

Jan 11, 2025 | thesicktimes.org | James Salanga

Organizers focusing their efforts around Long COVID support, cleaner air, and COVID safety are part of a long lineage of community care networks that echo those formed during the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The new COVID Safety Handbook chronicles that history and lays out practical guidance for navigating COVID health boundaries, discussing the science behind SARS-CoV-2, and changes in relationships that come with Long COVID.
Reckon News shuts down

Jan 10, 2025 | objectivejournalism.org | James Salanga

This story also appeared as the top story in The Objective’s weekly newsletter, The Front Page. Reckon News shut down as of Tuesday, Jan. 7, stopping publication and laying off 11 staffers. The newsroom, born in the U.S. South, focused on reckonings in the U.S. with a particular focus on climate justice, reproductive rights, queerness and trans rights, Blackness, racial justice, and movements through the lens of marginalized communities’ perspectives.
At journalism co-operatives, worker-owners take news into their own hands

Jan 9, 2025 | rjionline.org | James Salanga

Questions to consider when starting a news cooperative — and ways it’s helped journalists rethink their own workAs generative artificial intelligence (and the subsequent funds that accompany it) grows in favor with publishers — leading to more labor outsourced toward programs like ChatGPT — journalists’ work is increasingly being devalued by the people who purport to keep them employed.
Still Here, December 20: Links and transcript

Dec 21, 2024 | thesicktimes.org | James Salanga

With little support and no approved treatments, online drug markets are one way that people with Long COVID are seeking to improve their quality of life. In our last episode of 2024, co-hosts Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis talk with producer James Salanga to recap reporting from freelancer Hannah Buttle about this phenomenon and the current state of potential Long COVID treatments.
Investing in the disability beat

Dec 16, 2024 | niemanlab.org | James Salanga

To create an accurate record of history, news organizations in 2025 must become serious about the disability beat by understanding and actively resisting ableism. That’s more crucial than ever with an incoming president whose rhetoric falls in line with fascist logics and beliefs and whose appointees for various health positions ramp up chances for misinformation about disability to spread. Take Robert F.
Still Here, December 13: Links and transcript

Dec 13, 2024 | thesicktimes.org | James Salanga

This week, playwright and rock musician Dan Fishback talks about his new production about living with ME/CFS in a pandemic. Also in this episode: the latest COVID-19 numbers, a randomized, controlled clinical trial looking at the monoclonal antibody Evusheld 2.0, and Mt. Sinai’s Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness (CoRE) looks for new trial participants.