Poynter conducted a study of 167 journalists and published the results Wednesday. The results are fascinating, and worth analyzing, as they seem to document a change in the way our industry views ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity. But this conceit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although some people think objectivity is the press’ natural mode, for most of American history newspapers were proudly partisan A ...

Just days after the new president was sworn in, NPR’s senior vice president of News, Michael Oreskes, defended his organization’s choice not to call the president elect’s fabrications “lies.” On that ...

A debate has been raging for 50 years or more over whether journalists should try to be “objective” in reporting events or describing controversies. It flared up recently in an exchange in The New ...

Objectivity serves its purpose, but in some of the most important realms, its time has passed. In those realms, transparency is the new objectivity. Objectivity still is required for much of science.

JD Vance accused a reporter of lacking objectivity and turning remarks about Donald Trump into a speech instead of a direct question ...

“Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity,” said Ted Glasser, communications professor at Stanford, in an ...

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Objectivity has long been a foundational principle of journalism, representing an ideal in which news reports are free from personal biases, emotions, or subjective influences. However, with the rise ...

One of the toughest questions to answer these days is “What is objectivity?” Few agree on a definition. And two films shown on PBS air turned the debate into a political firestorm. For more than a ...