Journalism Quotes

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.

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.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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.

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.