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,” ...

In one of our recent BPR perceptual studies, we tested listener understanding of the term “objective news”. As it turned out, respondents defined objective news in a variety of different ways some of ...

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 ...