Kim Williams must marry ABC’s need for diversity with objective journalism, former Media Watch host says

Incoming ABC chair Kim Williams has admitted that balancing diversity and impartiality is ‘complex’. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

The incoming ABC chair, Kim Williams, will need to grapple with the nuances of marrying the need for diversity in newsrooms with the “old ideal” of objective journalism, former Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes says.

Holmes, who is also chair of ABC Alumni, emphasised that he was not saying that journalists from diverse backgrounds could not be objective, rather that the very nature of having different perspectives was sometimes at odds with the idea of “one objective truth”.