Journalism Quotes - Page 10

My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot of other reporters I know: Human suffering is bad, and if reporting stories about it brings it to light and someone does something, that's part of the point of journalism. And it's a thin line between that and activism, and you have to be careful about that.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

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

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I've learned through other people's trial and error, and my own.