Journalism Quotes

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.