Summary: <p>A look at how journalism selectively judges objectivity and bias… Which produces better reporting: proximity to the community you cover? Or distance? Who gets to decide? </p> <p>1. Joel Simon [<a href="https://twitter.com/Joelcpj?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@Joelcpj</a>], outgoing executive director of the The Committee to Protect Journalists, on why it's a dangerous time to be a journalist. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/most-dangerous-time-to-be-journalist-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>2. Bruce Shapiro [<a href="https://twitter.com/DartCenter">@dartcenter</a>], executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School, on why trauma shouldn't disqualify reporters from reporting on topics into which they have insight. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-newsrooms-could-better-support-journalists-trauma-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>3. Ernest Owens [<a href="https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens">@mrernestowens</a>], Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists president, about the double-standards facing journalists who have identities or lived experiences that are different from editors who still determine what constitutes "objectivity." <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/black-journalist-was-barred-covering-blm-protests-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>4. Steve Friess [<a href="https://twitter.com/SteveFriess">@stevefriess</a>], editor at Hour Detroit and contributor for Newsweek, looks back at how he covered gay marriage when his own marriage hung in the balance. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/what-its-report-gay-marriage-when-its-deeply-personal-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>5. Lewis Raven Wallace [<a href="https://twitter.com/LewisPants">@lewispants</a>], author of <em>The View from Somewhere</em>, on why what we call "neutrality" so often reflects the ideological assumptions of the status quo. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-manifesto-against-objectivity-transformed-one-journalists-career-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p><em>Music from this week's show:</em></p> <p><em>Frail As a Breeze — Erik Friedlander</em><em>Night Thoughts — John Zorn</em><em>Fallen Leaves — Marcos CiscarMiddlesex Times — Michael Andrews</em><em>Bubble Wrap — Thomas Newman </em><em>Transparence — Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba</em><em>Carmen Fantasy — Anderson + Row</em><em>Tribute to America — The O’Neill Brothers</em></p> <p> </p>
