Journalism Quotes

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and do...

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me t...

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the nam...

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably...

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and ...

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidd...

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work...

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse'...

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalis...

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, ...

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to...

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be serv...

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...

The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality...

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviali...

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that ...

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of t...

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard...

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workpl...

The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Every...

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead ...

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars...

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (...

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, ...

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an...

Those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belo...

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional de...

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulga...

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the ...

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,...

Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of...

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the pa...

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just laz...

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ...

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what h...

Why, sir, in the beginning we appointed all our worst generals to command the armies, and all our be...

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're ...

Journalism can be lethal

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.