There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Objectivity hasn’t always been a cornerstone of journalism. American publishers first turned to objectivity in the early ...

Objectivity has been a core journalistic ideal since the 1920s. Over the past few years, however, journalists have begun redefining what it means to report responsibly — and resisting the century-old ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

Jazmine Hughes was recently forced to resign from the New York Times Magazine after signing an open letter by the ad hoc coalition Writers Against the War on Gaza. The letter, which I am also 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 ...

Pub-Style Science: dreams of objectivity in a game built around power. This is the third and final installment of my transcript of the Pub-Style Science discussion about how (if at all) philosophy can ...