Journalism Quotes

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

Always verify your references.

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

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

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

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

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

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

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.