Courtney Martin makes the case for a more empathetic and personal model of journalism:
Journalism, as we’ve known it, has been mourned deeply over the last few years. The Internet has changed everything. “Citizen journalism,” a phrase that still inspires dirty looks at most journalism conferences, has blurred the lines between objectivity and subjectivity, paid and unpaid labor, news and opinion. It gives veteran journalists agita to imagine totally untrained people messing around in their exclusive, albeit hardscrabble, club.
With all this reshaping and shifting of our industry, all this talk about changing financial models and publishing structures, now is an opportune time to question one of the field’s most defended values: objectivity.
