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Skepticism, not objectivity, is what makes journalism matter

Ivor Shapiro, Ryerson University “That reporter is too biased to cover this story.” It’s a too-familiar complaint from news consumers — and sometimes also from newsroom managers — because people expect journalists to be impartial, detached or even “objective.” The fraught idea of journalistic objectivity was at the centre of a recent controversy at the […]

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Does journalism need objectivity?

By Tabu Butagira The African Centre for Media Excellence, or ACME, hosted a talk on 2 July 2015 at which former Wall Street Journal news editor Christopher Conte discounted objectivity and journalists’ detachment from subject(s) they cover as overrated virtues of good journalism. “There is a place for softer, more subjective journalism where the community […]

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