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 ...

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

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