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Author(s): Daniel Bo (Ph.D), Gabriel T. Nyitse (Ph.D), Shemenenge Yvonne Atime (Ph.D).

Volume/Issue: Volume 6 , Issue 5 (2023)

Abstract:

This study interrogates the growing tendency to assume the impossibility of journalistic objectivity. Specifically, it sieves through the controversies and articulates the way forward. The study adopts a Discourse Analysis approach and anchors its contentions on the Correspondence and Coherence theories. The analysis concludes that journalistic objectivity is distinctively a news function. And that it is not only desirable but possible and realisable if approached within a defined context. Based on this framework, the study provides a standard for achieving journalistic objectivity in media practice.

Keywords:

Objectivity, News, Content Genre, Journalism.

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