Person
Gaye Tuchman
Sociologist of news production. Her 1972 essay “Objectivity as Strategic Ritual” argued that objectivity is a set of procedures journalists perform to defend their work, not a property of the reporting itself.
Writing that references this work:
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The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Produces Reality
A photograph can be factually authentic and still organize the world through captions, crops, assignments and repetition. Objectivity becomes credible only when journalism accounts for the decisions that turn an…
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality taught me useful disciplines: verify, do not stage and do not let a caption outrun the evidence. It also taught me to mistake professional restraint for the absence of…
