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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A common source of organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) is when a firm’s ability to render impartial advice to the government is or might be undermined by the firm’s competing interests. These ...

Questions about the strength of the media’s commitment to fairness arise every day, though a few recent events have elevated those concerns. VandeHei’s approval (nay, exhortation) of reporters ...