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 ...

The most recent — and perhaps most egregious — way this has surfaced is a story about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s application to Columbia University in 2009, when he was a high school ...

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 ...

Practicing journalism with an objective and with care breathes new life into the unfortunately undead metaphor of objectivity. To publish news that makes the world a better place is a better goal than ...

Objectivity has its roots in American journalism in the early 20th century, where journalists sought to make reporting more scientific through factchecking, finding primary sources and weighing ...

One of the defining elements of journalism is a reporter’s objectivity. In the Medill School of Journalism’s first-year sequence, journalistic objectivity is drilled into our skulls from day one.

Seeing objectivity simply as “lack of bias” leaves reporters and newsrooms vulnerable to all sorts of pressures, such as ...

Objectivity has been cited as journalism's gold standard, promising that journalists would stick “to the facts" and deliver both sides of the story, excluding their personal views.

Journalism students are taught professional standards and how to follow them. To me, there is a glaring issue with that and that is the issue of objectivity. Journalistic objectivity is the idea that ...

At the center of this problem is the idea of ‘journalistic objectivity’ and what it really means to locate a ‘neutral’ perspective on a given story. The intended purpose of journalistic objectivity is ...

Journalists discuss identity, objectivity at first-ever Inclusive Journalism Conference Panelists included journalists from ESPN, Vox, Boston Globe The roundtable discussion “brought a lot of the ...