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.

Objectivity is critical in the workplace in order to maintain employee loyalty and to avoid ethical conflicts. Operating a company means setting personal ties aside and not focusing on the emotional ...

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 ...

“Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity,” said Ted Glasser, communications professor at Stanford, in an ...

A new report featured dozens of journalists and media experts who widely reject the concept of "objectivity," which was once a longstanding principle in the news industry. The lengthy piece, titled ...

Most academic disciplines belonging to broad category of social sciences are intrinsically interpretative. This is because any claimed addition/contribution to ‘knowledge’ in any branch of social ...

A lying president. Political polarization tearing the country apart. Protest movements demanding an end to sexist and racist power structures. In such a climate, can journalists be expected to report ...

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Here’s why: Objectivity is an ethos built on “shall nots” rather than the things that journalists might stand for. We shall not have insights independent of those we quote; we shall not take sides, ...