2025/06/23 by Irene Awino, David Cheruiyot · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Media Studies and Communication
paper · doi:10.1080/01419870.2025.2519799
openalex publication_date 2025/06/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
Scholarly and industry discourses of racial reckoning increasingly invoke reparative justice as a critical facet of a renewed media reform movement. In this paper, we explore how four media reparative initiatives – The 1619 Project, the Media 2070 initiative, the Cotton Capital Project and the Stuff newspaper apologia – describe their organisations’ visions, objectives, activities or practices of repair as an entry point into illuminating the intersections between reparative justice and media reforms. The paper shows that the four reparative projects aim for transformative action through advocacy strategies against corporate organisational structures of oppression, journalistic practices of racial misrepresentation, or media systems that enable and perpetuate societal harms. The projects augment the social justice imaginary of the media reform movement, which revitalises activism and struggles against historical injustices related to colonisation, indigeneity, and race.