“What is a journalist?” is a contemporary equivalent of the ancient question, “What is truth?” The U.S. government’s prosecution of Julian Assange hinges on the assertion that he is not a journalist ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Around the turn of the twentieth century, an Irish bartender in Chicago named Martin J. Dooley described how newspapers ...

Most Americans say journalists are important to the well-being of society, but all Americans don’t define a journalist the same way, a new Pew Research Center report showed. Americans value honesty, ...

This is the fourth of four detailed sections in a report on Americans’ views about the role of journalists in the digital age. The report also includes an overview of the key findings. This section ...

This is the third of four detailed sections in a report on Americans’ views about the role of journalists in the digital age. The report also includes an overview of the key findings. In both the ...