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 ...

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 ...

Throughout my career, objectivity was stressed as a hallmark of quality reporting. But here’s the rub: As human beings, being objective — completely neutral — is almost impossible. Did we strive for ...

One of the toughest questions to answer these days is “What is objectivity?” Few agree on a definition. And two films shown on PBS air turned the debate into a political firestorm. For more than a ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 35 (September 1, 2020), pp. 21218-21229 (12 pages) Two studies conducted during the 2016 presidential ...

From left: Kyle Pope, David Greenberg, Lewis Raven Wallace, Wesley Lowery, Andie Tucher, Masha Gessen. Photo via Columbia/YouTube On Tuesday, a group of journalists took up the matter at “The ...

Although Mike McFeely's feathers were ruffled by my criticism of Moorhead's blunder in leveling its downtown long ago, he admits that I was right. The Center Mall was a flop; even years ago when I ...

In order to create an “open” and “welcoming” environment for all students, the University of Michigan tends to emphasize political neutrality and objectivity, especially within their classrooms. When ...

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

How objective are you? How often are you over-reacting to situations, taking things personally, perceiving tone in e-mail or judging people unfairly? We all do this at some time or another. The ...