Journalism Quotes (931 Quotes)

Journalists in Nepal have every reason to protest the king's continued campaign of intimidation against the independent press.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

We welcome this important court decision. The government should withdraw these spurious charges against all of the former Daily News journalists, repeal AIPPA and allow the Daily News to reopen.

Mourning, 35, who underwent a kidney transplant in December 2003, seemed offended when a reporter asked if he could play 30 minutes a night over several games. Did you see me play last year Enough said, ... I'm not sick. There's nothing wrong with me... . So don't question my abilities, please.

Names sell newspapers, there's no doubt about it. If you know that on a certain day, a certain columnist is holding forth on a certain topic, that can sell a few papers.

When you have more and more information being classified, and more and more secrets being kept, the only way reporters can get information is when internal whistleblowers provide it. And that drives this administration crazy.

The Republican candidate has strong name ID. She's run in the district before. She's an Emmy-winning television journalist. And, if she puts the money together with a strong campaign team, she could turn Illinois 17th into one of the most competitive districts in the country.

I have had numerous interviews with reporters who called looking for quotes about tech bargains. I always explain that we believe the best values today are in growing companies outside of the technology sector....To these reporters, it defies common sense that stocks that have declined 80 percent or more are not yet 'values.' That is a testament to how powerful and unprecedented the technology mania was. Even after such large price declines, most of these stocks are still not cheap.

As anyone who has worked with him knows, Tom was a very kind and honorable man in addition to a valued and courageous reporter. He was always there for his colleagues in times of need.

What's good for the viewers is good for us personally. One of the fears that Peter expressed to me over the years was that once you get to this chair, once you get to this position, you're not able to go out to the big stories and the things you've always loved your whole life as a journalist to do.

I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately gave to a journalist. I said 'Apparently, Benicio Del Toro and I had sex in an elevator. He printed it, then all the tabloids took out the word 'apparently'. I'll be answering that question for the rest of my life.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

I got some very good advice once. That was You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going through it with them. I've never pretended to grab onto something. The audience knows when something's real and when it's not.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I've brought copies of these votes for members of the panel of journalists participating in the debate,

They say it was 37 bodies found, but many people think it was twice that count. It's set in the period of the '70s. It centers on my relationship with a loose-cannon reporter. It's also about the five different police forces who came together to find this killer during a time when there were no fax machines, no Internet and it was hard to share information.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

What is really true is the fact that journalism is a tough job. It's a job that requires a lot of passion. It's a job that requires a tremendous degree of intelligence.

In the name of God, in the name of religion, in the name of any word of sympathy that exists in Iraq, I urge you to release this female journalist.

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

We are setting out very clearly what has happened. I wish sometimes journalists would listen a little more closely to what we are actually saying.

Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

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.

I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.

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.

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law