Despite these insights, across political differences, people strive for and continue to demand scientific objectivity: the idea that science should be unbiased, rational and separable from cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those calling for news reporters to abandon objectivity might not be a majority, but they are persistent. On Twitter this week I saw someone questioning why the news media would cover a trucker convoy ...

When Carr Van Anda joined The New York Times as its managing editor on February 14, 1904⁠, the temperature inside the office dropped a few degrees—or so it felt. Van Anda, age 39, was a chilly ...

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 ...

This week, Sports Illustrated published an essay from veteran reporter Tim Layden in which he investigated what he sees as a trend away from objectivity in sports media. Layden interviewed several ...

In April, a mob had torched houses and shops in the Samsherganj police station area in West Bengal’s Murshidabad after 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 ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity ...

Prior to last week’s release of the report on the effects of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on U.S. climate, health, and welfare by ...