Journalism Quotes

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

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.

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

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

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."