A diverse new generation of journalists has pushed to deconstruct the old system, and most of the debate has recently erupted at The Washington Post, whose senior editor at the time, Martin Baron, had won Pulitzers and challenged presidents using traditional newspaper techniques. Mr. Baron, on the other hand, chastised his staff for expressing their views on Twitter about the topics they covered.
In a widely circulated New York Times opinion piece, his former protégé, national correspondent Wesley Lowery, contended that objectivity mirrored the mindset of white reporters and editors, whose “chosen facts have been calibrated to avoid hurting the sensibilities of white readers.”
Mr. Lowery, who later left The Post for CBS News, suggested that news organisations “abandon the appearance of objectivity as the aspirational journalistic standard, and instead focus on being fair and telling the truth, as best as one can, based on the given context and available facts,” and that reporters “focus on being fair and telling the truth, as best as one can, based on the given context and available facts.”
The similar idea has gained traction at some of the country’s top journalism schools.
Sarah Bartlett, dean of the City University of New York Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, said, “We stress on fairness, fact-checking, and accuracy, and we don’t try to indicate to our students that their ideas should be buried.” “We believe in openness.”
Steve Coll, her Columbia Journalism School colleague, who announced on Thursday that he will step down in June after nine years as dean, said the school strives to educate fairness and intellectual honesty, but that the old way of thinking has evolved into something new. He stated, “The church is gone, and there is no orthodoxy left.” “There are a lot of different kinds of journalism, which is sort of liberating.”
Much of the transition is due to the changing structure of the news industry, as well as the collapse of local newspapers, whose business relied heavily on establishing a presence. The internet has also blurred the distinctions between news and opinion for readers, which were formerly distinct in a print newspaper.
(With inputs from NYT > Top Stories.)
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