james

@hashtagjames.bsky.social

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co-director at @objectivejournos.bsky.social, prev podcastbian @thesicktimes.org • (they/them) https://objectivejournalism.org/

Journalism has a historical precedent of celebrating reporters who were once ostracized for wielding their platforms for justice. Ida B. Wells is now heralded for taking a stance against lynching, Christianne Amanpour was once criticized for using the word “genocide” to describe a mass killing of Muslim Bosniack men in Srebrenica and is now CNN’s chief international anchor of her own global affairs program. Both are strong examples of the impact journalism could have when journalists center morality over “objectivity”. Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of the Elements of Journalism, a fundamental text in journalism education, summarized: “The method is objective, but the journalist is not.”
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