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Objectivity hasn’t always been a cornerstone of journalism. American publishers first turned to objectivity in the early twentieth century, in response to the freewheeling “yellow journalism” common ...
Objectivity — or the idea that journalism requires a dispassionate, factual, and non-partisan voice — is a notion that all aspiring journalists are taught. However, for this current “post-truth age,” ...
This is why the Downie headline is so deeply weird. The more they've dumped objectivity, the more the public trust in the press has plummeted.
With longstanding principles of objectivity, truth and fairness in news reporting up for debate in recent years, a homegrown ...
The most recent — and perhaps most egregious — way this has surfaced is a story about New York mayoral candidate Zohran ...
Students voted in favor of prioritizing journalistic objectivity over advocacy at Monday night’s Political Union debate. Political Union, a nonpartisan student group, regularly hosts member-led ...
To understand why so many journalists see objectivity as synonymous with false neutrality, one must appreciate the former’s roots in the ad-based business model of 20th-century newspapers.
In his April 28 op-ed “Journalists, what side of history are you on?”, Gabe Hawkins wrote that journalistic objectivity was “drilled into” his skull during his first year at Medill. I’m ...
Wallace publicly disclosed that he was dismissed for a blog post rejecting journalistic objectivity. He ultimately wrote a book on the myth of objectivity and co-founded Press On. Public media ...
The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity. But this conceit is, at best, ahistorical. Like all things, the modern press corps was ...
Even in recent conversations about transforming journalism, objectivity as an ideal often gets a curiously free pass. The argument tends to go like this: “Journalistic objectivity has been implemented ...