Journalism Quotes

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.

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.