Journalism Quotes

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wide...

I've always been fascinated by weather.

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Readin...

It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially wh...

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a...

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat ...

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who...

Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at ...

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for ...

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in t...

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, ...

He turned and gave the Dark Elf a nasty look. “They can do that,” he said, “mess with your head, usi...

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, o...

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In ...

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-pa...

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbias...

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways:...

The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis...

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, ...

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space be...

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and histori...

It is hard for a writer to call an editor great, because it is natural for him to think of the edito...

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope ...

News is only the first rough draft of history.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of ...

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the e...

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great...

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ...

Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have...

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nat...

At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of ...

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and f...

A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we...

But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as ...

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have informa...

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyr...

The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bern...

Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preemine...

At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had ...

Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Wo...

Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thou...

During discussions in his office, Bradlee frequently picked up an undersize sponge-rubber basketball...

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the rece...

The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up ...

Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for i...

It was 9:30 P.M., just an hour from deadline for the second edition. Woodward began typing:A $25,000...

But you're absolutely sure we're right?' The question carried an intensity absent from the previous ...

Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with ...

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his playe...

Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has ...

Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he ho...

The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy inform...

A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before....

They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant....

Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching ...

Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat.Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she sai...

Soon, challenges against the Post's ownership of two television stations in Florida were filed with ...

Deep Throat stamped his foot. 'A conspiracy like this...a conspiracy investigation...the rope has to...

Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy...

He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so...

The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of dra...

All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in th...

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had id...

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balanc...

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But wha...

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the chan...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped a...

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The...

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive ...

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read...

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic wit...

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe’s ‘saturation reporting’ was possib...

Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the sa...

Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper repo...

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's...