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Plus: Bon Appétit gets further filleted, and McClatchy is giving employees a raise.
By The Objective Staff Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m.
Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m.
Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each issue with Nieman Lab readers.
“Despite even major public failings, they keep coming back because they work behind the scenes to protect themselves and each other to stay in power and preserve the status quo,” writes Jennifer Barnett in her Medium piece: “I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up.” While working as managing editor of The Atlantic, Barnett discovered a pattern: Men, after leaving newsroom
A two-year investigation into racism and sexism at CBS leads to…well, it’s not completely clear what
Plus: The New Yorker Union work stoppage, media outlets quote anti-immigrant extremist groups, and “it’s highly likely his comments will become public at some point.”
By The Objective Staff Jan. 29, 2021, 12:39 p.m.
Jan. 29, 2021, 12:39 p.m.
Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each issue with Nieman Lab readers.
Capitol coverage, the problem with op-eds, and that Vogue cover.
By The Objective Staff Jan. 15, 2021, 12:05 p.m.
Jan. 15, 2021, 12:05 p.m.
Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each issue with Nieman Lab readers.
McDonald’s Sausage McMuffins are not the breakfast of champions. They’re the breakfast of white supremacists, according to The Atlantic.
Coverage of the insurrection at the Capitol has varied wildly among outlets and reporters, revealing, yet again, the media’s failure to adequately cover the white supremacy that existed in the United States long before the rise of President Donald Trump. Journalists of color remain unsurprised.
The media reckoning that came and went
Plus: The New York Post works to destroy trust in journalism, and Public Media for All.
By The Objective Staff Dec. 18, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
Dec. 18, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each issue with Nieman Lab readers.
It’s
Friday, December 18th.
This time on The Front Page: The media reckoning that came and went, The New York Post works to destroy trust in journalism, and a shitty media man in Pittsburgh.