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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.” Even in recent conversations about transforming journalism, objectivity as an ideal often gets ...

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 ...

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 ...