Journalism Quotes

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

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.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

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

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.