Journalism Quotes

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Journalism is the first draft of history

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

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

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

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

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

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

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.