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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American news media have a big problem. People don’t trust them. They don’t trust mainstream newspapers and TV networks to deliver ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity. But this conceit ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.” Even in recent conversations about transforming journalism, objectivity as an ideal often gets ...

Questions about the strength of the media’s commitment to fairness arise every day, though a few recent events have elevated those concerns. VandeHei’s approval (nay, exhortation) of reporters ...

Finally tonight as promised a Special Comment about Ted Koppel's OpEd piece in The Washington Post yesterday entitled "Olbermann, O'Reilly, and the death of real news." And I apologize up-front for ...