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Ofjournalistic objectivity — of course, everything challenges journalistic objectivity. writing about socialjustice issues, anything like that. it's very hard... a lot ofjournalists would say we're not supposed to do that, we're supposed to be actively pushing for good beliefs and actions. i'm quite puritan about these things, and i think the job of the journalist is to say true things and to find out what is true, and do your best to persuade people that it is true. obviously there's a complicated a question about selecting what's important — it is true that i'm sitting at a table, i don'...

Change presents a challenge to the whole convention of journalistic objectivity? there will never be one day in which we can say, "climate change has happened!" it will always be, you know, ambiguous things. there'll be some heatwave in sub—saharan africa which kills some number of people — and is that climate change? probably, but there's no, sort of — and this is what will continue to happen, i think it'll be a real challenge for us over time. it'lljust be the world getting slightly worse in lots of little ways that you can't ever really specifically say, "this is climate change" — y...

And in this sense, my colleagues are activists. tom, do you think that climate change presents a challenge to the whole convention of journalistic objectivity? there will never be one day in which we can say, "climate change has happened!" it will always be, you know, ambiguous things. there'll be some heatwave in sub—saharan africa which kills some number of people — and is that climate change? probably, but there's no, sort of — and this is what will continue to happen, i think it'll be a real challenge for usover time. it'lljust be the world getting slightly worse in lots of little wa...

Change presents a challenge to the whole convention of journalistic objectivity? there will never be one day in which we can say, "climate change has happened!" it will always be, you know, ambiguous things. there'll be some heatwave in sub—saharan africa which kills some number of people — and is that climate change? probably, but there's no, sort of — and this is what will continue to happen, i think it'll be a real challenge over time. it'lljust be the world getting slightly worse in lots of little ways that you can't ever really specifically say, "this is climate change" — you alwa...

A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa’s news media makes for worrying reading. The panel, headed by retired judge Kathy Satchwell, was commissioned by the South African National Editors’ Forum following a series of ethical lapses by the Sunday Times. The paper dominated the country’s media landscape for over 100 years. As the largest by circulation it was also considered the most powerful newspaper. The lapses included factual inaccuracies in reports on allegations of police killings as well as reports on alleged illegal deportations of Zi...