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 ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although some people think objectivity is the press’ natural mode, for most of American history newspapers were proudly partisan A ...

Bob Woodward of the Washington Post shocked the news world last week when he attacked his own newspaper for its Russiagate coverage. In an interview with Jeff Gerth in the Columbia Journalism Review, ...

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.

With controversies emerging about actions taken by the Muncy Township Board of Supervisors, who took office last month, some officials say their call for transparency seems disingenuous when meetings ...

Downie literally argues that the very notion of “objectivity” is a white, male construct, and, thus by its very nature, is a “distortion of reality.” (Seriously.) In what sounds like an over-the-top ...

Over 50 million people viewed the last presidential debate. The aftermath still reverberates in many current conversations. At least in my lifetime, I don’t recall another more consequential debate.