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@objectivejournos.bsky.social“A lot of us really thought [when] COVID [hit, it] was going to be that crisis that put things into perspective for us ... you’ve just seen how quickly that’s backtracked and reversed.” —@yessfun.com
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialFor the latest in our Since 2020 series, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social covered who gets left behind when promises to cover climate are reneged and whether diversifying the field was a temporary project.
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@fspnwu.bsky.socialReposted by @objectivejournos.bsky.socialIn the last quarter of a century, rent has increased roughly 141%. Any guesses how much freelance writer rates have risen in that same time frame?
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialTwenty-six years ago, the @nwu.org advocated for a $1/word pay rate. But if that $1/word rate from 2000 matched today’s inflation, the average writer should be making about $2/word.
According to @fspnwu.bsky.social data, they aren’t. objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/free...
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialHow much do you think freelance journalists make per word? The latest analysis of the @fspnwu.bsky.social's Rate Sharing Database found steep discrepancies.
@objectivejournos.bsky.social"If a $1/word rate matched today’s inflation, the average writer should be making about $2/word. But — according to our data — they aren’t."
@fspnwu.bsky.social members jen byers and Elena Novak analyze data from the project's Rate Sharing Database.
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialAs journalists from major newsrooms are pushed out of reporting on the White House, incarcerated journalists send up a similar cry to free press advocates: Push back on a developing FCC policy that could silence reporting on the inside. buff.ly/G9nmmm0
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialRead more reporting about the state of prison media access in California, which incarcerates the second-most people in the U.S., by @vevalenz.bsky.social: objectivejournalism.org/2026/08/gove...
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialNEW COMMENTARY: Prison media access is piecemeal across states, meaning incarcerated journalists are best positioned to shine transparency on prisons and jails. But they worry a potential FCC policy to jam cellphones could cut off their line of reporting. objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/pote...
@objectivejournos.bsky.social@pewresearch.org has found Latine immigrants more often read news in Spanish.
CUNY-Newmark's Bilingual Journalism program director Carmen Gracíela Díaz said the layoffs “raise difficult questions ... regarding the future of journalism in the communities these newspapers serve.”
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialAmong those cut by the McClatchy layoffs are writers at Spanish-language papers in Florida and California and the Tri-City Herald's only Spanish-speaking reporter, @newsguild.org shared on Sep. 11.
“I’m heartbroken,” said Vida en el Valle founding editor Juan Esparza Loera.
@nithincoca.comReposted by @objectivejournos.bsky.socialAs newsrooms obsess over the latest Trump blunders, what happens to the rest of the world? International journalists are being left behind.
For @objectivejournos.bsky.social my latest unpacks the hidden costs of shrinking foreign reporting budgets objectivejournalism.org/2026/08/u-s-...
@ncoca.social.coop.ap.brid.gyReposted by @objectivejournos.bsky.socialAs newsrooms obsess over the latest #Trump blunders, what happens to the rest of the world? Hundreds of #international #journalists are losing their jobs due to #US funding cuts.
For The Objective (@objectivejournos.bsky.social), my latest piece unpacks the hidden costs of shrinking foreign […]
@objectivejournos.bsky.social“I’m one of the people that fled across the country because of anti-trans laws. The New York Times was contributing to the atmosphere that created them.”
@transnews.network is calling for a public boycott of the U.S. paper of record and its related products.
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialThe @transnews.network effort joins a second active boycott campaign against the New York Times, called by @wawog.bsky.social in 2024 over the paper's role in being “not only complicit in, but accountable for, the slaughter of Gaza.”
@objectivejournos.bsky.social@transnews.network calls for a public boycott of the New York Times: “No excuses, no exceptions... This boycott will no longer be necessary when the NYT stops pushing [the] genocide [of trans people]."
Read the news story by @charliebloomer.bsky.social: objectivejournalism.org/2026/08/tran...
@objectivejournos.bsky.socialThe latest in our Since 2020 series, from @nithincoca.com: "Coupled with layoffs, it feels like entire countries and regions are being completely ignored by the mainstream media."
@objectivejournos.bsky.social“Somebody is going to say, ‘Why am I talking to you? Why are you doing this story? I can't talk to you, because what happens if this winds up in Palantir?’ And that should not be the job of a reporter to answer for.”
@objectivejournos.bsky.social“I could make my living on this for a number of years, and that is an increasingly rare prospect for queer journalists," said Samantha Riedel, a former long-time contributing writer for Them. @transjournalists.org estimates around half of its members are freelancers.
