It was with great interest that I viewed Murder at Harvard on PBS, and I enjoyed the short -- but insightful -- review of the program by Louis P. Masur (“History or Fiction?,” The Review, July 11). ..

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 ...

There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hegemony refers to domination of various kinds, often by one state or group over others. The definition given by the Italian Marxist, Gramsci, leads to deeper understanding: it is the success of the ...

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.

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