What is the role of a journalist in a post-objectivity world?

[Commentary] Objectivity is an ethos built on the “shall nots” rather than the things that journalists might stand for. We shall not have insights independent of those we quote; we shall not take sides, even in things as fundamental as a better community; we shall not have feelings; we shall not be biased. Objectivity says, in essence, that journalists are not human. So how did we get to this place in journalism, and what do we do about it? I’ll describe this evolution in three stages. They are arbitrary. History, like life, rarely fits so neatly.