“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 ...

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In 2017, Lewis Raven Wallace was fired from his job in public radio for a piece he wrote on his personal blog, “Objectivity is dead, and I’m ok with it.” His employers said the piece violated their ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The media, Wallace said, needs to think about “the relationship between journalism, identity, community, and truth ...

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 ...

Journalism ethics and objectivity represent enduring pillars in the pursuit of credible, trustworthy news. Historically rooted in Enlightenment ideals of impartiality and fairness, the discourse has ...

It’s common to hear the word “objective” used in relation to the work of journalists. However, its definition and application are hotly debated, with some experts arguing it’s either impossible or ...

From Glenn Beck to Keith Olbermann, from Rachel Maddow to Fox News there has been intense focus and debate on the spin of broadcast journalism. Some argue that journalists should admit their biases ...

“With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations,” Hunter S. Thompson wrote in 1973, “there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase ...

Bob Woodward of the Washington Post shocked the news world last week when he attacked his own newspaper for its Russiagate coverage. In an interview with Jeff Gerth in the Columbia Journalism Review, ...

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