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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American news media have a big problem. People don’t trust them. They don’t trust mainstream newspapers and TV networks to deliver ...

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 ...

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 ...

The issue of journalism objectivity was a subject of heated debate for decades. Many concerns and questions have still not been answered properly; and many believe that the issue should not be raised ...

Finally tonight as promised a Special Comment about Ted Koppel's OpEd piece in The Washington Post yesterday entitled "Olbermann, O'Reilly, and the death of real news." And I apologize up-front for ...

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 ...