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 ...

Lao Tzu, considered the father of Taoist philosophy, is purported to have said, “It is better to know and think you don’t, ...

Former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin “Marty” Baron reemerged in the media discourse recently, after publishing an extensive defense of the notion of journalistic objectivity. It is a ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

From left: Kyle Pope, David Greenberg, Lewis Raven Wallace, Wesley Lowery, Andie Tucher, Masha Gessen. Photo via Columbia/YouTube On Tuesday, a group of journalists took up the matter at “The ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

This summer, after hearing about an interview I’d done on artificial intelligence, a relative sent me an email. It started, “I hope you’re doing well,” and went on, “I’m truly impressed by how you ...