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 ...

Objectivity, as defined in Mr. Stephens’s column — “using facts without distortion by personal beliefs, feelings or prejudice” — is a pipe dream. What we can be is fair.

For decades, scientific literature described human conception this way, with the cells mirroring the perceived roles of women and men in society. The egg was thought to be passive while the sperm was ...

It’s objectivity with a purpose: to tell the truth about our society and enable people to decide what it means for the health of our democracy.

In an interview last fall, journalism scholar Jay Rosen referred to journalistic objectivity as the surface upon which enemies of the press wield their war against the truth. “Every time you are shown ...

An objective observation is typically understood as one that is (a) based upon publicly observable phenomena (i.e., overt behavior); (b) unbiased, in the sense that it records only what is ...