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,” ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: objectivity -- Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivity's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship : three shades of political ...

During the McCarthy era in the 1950s, the definition of objective journalism expanded beyond a “just the facts” approach to include more context and analysis, because just reporting Sen. Joe ...