Objectivity in journalism aims to help the audience make up their own mind about a story, providing the facts alone and then letting audiences interpret those on their own. To maintain objectivity in journalism, journalists should present the facts whether or not they like or agree with those facts.

Compared to professional journalists, citizen journalism does not have the same level of accuracy, autonomy, and objectivity (de Zúñiga, 2013), which varies fundamentally in the perception of the audience (Nah et al., 2017).

Journalists strive to keep the public's trust, because it is on the foundation of trust that information is collected and exchanged. The public must trust journalists to provide accurate and valuable information, or the journalists' works will be neither sought out nor believed.

Objectivity leads to the day's news being viewed as something journalists are compelled to report, not something they are responsible for creating. Discussions constantly evade questions of morality and responsibility.