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 ...

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 ...

The way we get our news is changing fast. The latest research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University shows that, around the world, news consumers are turning to ...

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 ...

Those were the words of William Goldman, the gifted screenwriter, who was finishing his script for All the President’s Men in 1972, when his director told him to quit writing. It seems Robert Redford, ...

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 ...

Readers discuss a column by Bret Stephens about restoring trust in the media. To the Editor: Re “Journalists Can’t Discard Objectivity,” by Bret Stephens (column, Feb. 10): I agree with most of Mr.

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Objectivity hasn’t always been a cornerstone of journalism. American publishers first turned to objectivity in the early ...