Journalist Quotes

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I am a journalist.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.