Former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin “Marty” Baron reemerged in the media discourse recently, after publishing an extensive defense of the notion of journalistic objectivity. It is a ...

Name a controversial issue, such as gun control, immigration, climate change or race relations. On none of them are the media more biased than on abortion. It’s as if journalists joined a Planned ...

Authorities in the news industry, whose reputation is near a record low, have a novel idea to restore public faith in their work: They can improve trust, they say, by renouncing objectivity. This is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American news media have a big problem. People don’t trust them. They don’t trust mainstream newspapers and TV networks to deliver ...

When longtime CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, on-air from 1962 to 1981, was described in a contemporary poll as “the most trusted man in America,” the Gallup organization began surveying ...

It is hardly a secret within America’s newsrooms that our profession has lost much of the public’s trust. Gallup, which has polled “Confidence in Institutions” for decades, found that, as of last ...

American news media have a big problem. People don’t trust them. They don’t trust mainstream newspapers and TV networks to deliver information honestly and without political agendas. A Gallup poll ...