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 ...

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.

When longtime CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, on-air from 1962 to 1981, was described in a contemporary poll as “the most trusted man in America,” the Gallup organization began surveying ...

Nothing brings home the clash of cultures between “new” and “old” media like the debates over social-media policies at mainstream publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Earlier ...

Authorities in the news industry, whose reputation is near a record low, have a novel idea to restore public faith in their work: They can improve trust, they say, by renouncing objectivity. This is ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Rosenstiel also took issue with the suggestion that objectivity could or should be replaced by a sense of what Lowery called ...

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 ...