Objectivity — or the idea that journalism requires a dispassionate, factual, and non-partisan voice — is a notion that all aspiring journalists are taught. However, for this current “post-truth age,” ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: objectivity -- Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivity's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship : three shades of political ...

During the McCarthy era in the 1950s, the definition of objective journalism expanded beyond a “just the facts” approach to include more context and analysis, because just reporting Sen. Joe ...

Academics and journalists alike are fond of declaring that objectivity in journalism is outright impossible. The fallback is to say that even though the ideal of objectivity might be unattainable, it ...