We all perceive and respond to our world through the lens of our mental models. In order to be objective, we must identify and transform limiting and unproductive mental models and change our minds.

“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 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 ...

Objectivity — or the idea that journalism requires a dispassionate, factual, and non-partisan voice — is a notion that all aspiring journalists are taught. However, for this current “post-truth age,” ...

There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

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We all perceive and respond to our world through the lens of our mental models. In order to be objective, we must identify and transform limiting and unproductive mental models and change our minds.