Is there such a thing as objective reporting? Which values, and whose, should inform a journalist’s writing? How do current political conditions affect the nature of coverage? What if any limits ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Objectivity hasn’t always been a cornerstone of journalism. American publishers first turned to objectivity in the early ...

In debates over journalistic ethics, objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. As reporters and editors have quarreled over the merits of “objective” journalism in recent years, conflicting ...

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 ...

Journalists who want to express their political views on social media, engage in activism and ally themselves with social justice protesters value truth as much as journalists who seek to maintain a ...

These U-M classes encourage objectivity by making sure “all sides of a story are heard” (letting a student say whatever they believe even if it’s rooted in oppressive ideologies), hoping that, in ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...

Ivor Shapiro's research on journalists' professional roles and practice has received funding from Ryerson University and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

One of the biggest problems in reviewing tech products — especially mobile products such as cell phones, headsets, media players, etc — is the problem of objectivity. How objective can you be in a ...