The Objectivity Wars: A battle is underway for the future of journalism and how it’s practiced. The traditional, both-sides, neutral-toned model of reporting and objectivity, seen as a bulwark against a decline in media trust, is often pitted against a more muscular, outspoken journalism in response to a nation, and a profession, under siege. Is it possible for the two sides to come together? To find a way to co-exist? To redefine what qualifies as great journalism?
Join us for an important conversation, hosted by the Columbia Journalism Review and the Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.
This event will be live-streamed. A link will be provided before the event begins.
Introduction
Jelani Cobb, dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Moderator
Kyle Pope, editor and publisher, Columbia Journalism Review
Participants to include:
- Masha Gessen, staff writer, The New Yorker
- David Greenberg, professor of history and of journalism and media studies, Rutgers University
- Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who led the Washington Post team behind “Fatal Force,” an unprecedented analysis of fatal police shootings
- Andie Tucher, H. Gordon Garbedian professor of journalism, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
- Lewis Raven Wallace, co-director of Press On, and the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
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