Media & Communication · Journalism
A topic within Journalism, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Media & Communication.
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Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods
Philip Meyer · 1973
Argues journalism should borrow the survey, the database and the controlled comparison from social science, because a reporter's instinct for what is…
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Objectivity as Strategic Ritual: An Examination of Newsmen's Notions of Objectivity
Gaye Tuchman · 1972
Argues reporters cannot achieve objectivity in any real sense, so instead perform procedures — citing sources, quoting opposing sides, using…
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Philip Meyer
Argues journalism should borrow the survey, the database and the controlled comparison from social science, because a reporter's instinct for what is representative is no more reliable than any other layman's.
Craig Silverman
Extends verification from single-image checks to whole investigations, arguing that satellite imagery, corporate records and social accounts can corroborate each other into evidence no single source could provide alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Gaye Tuchman
Argues reporters cannot achieve objectivity in any real sense, so instead perform procedures — citing sources, quoting opposing sides, using quotation marks — that let them claim it and deflect blame for what they publish.