Journalism Quotes (931 Quotes)

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

All the microphones and reporters are standing around you like you're the president or somebody. Everybody's listening to what you have to say even if it means nothing. That's your 15 minutes of fame, glory, whatever it is. Enjoy it and just try to stay focused.

The strength and diversity of our group of investors and advisers is a major asset for New West. We believe our new model for regional and community-based journalism can play a big role in serving both residents of the region and visitors, and in shaping the conversation about the future of the West.

This is an enormously proud day for all of us at CBS News. Katie joining our team signifies not only her commitment to doing first-rate journalism, but our strong commitment to producing the highest quality work done by the best reporters, producers and writers in television news. She is a key ingredient as we work towards our goal of making CBS News the number one news organization in America. This organization was built on quality and integrity, and Katie and her CBS News colleagues will continue to carry that legacy into the 21st century. I would also like to offer our deepest thanks to Bob Schieffer for his outstanding work on the evening broadcast and look forward to his continuing role at CBS News.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

By wearing Judy Miller's prisoner number, reporters and other participants in the race will show solidarity with our colleague who is unable to participate along with us,

Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

The current serious crisis in Sri Lanka in no way justifies the impunity prevailing in the murders of journalists and human rights activists.

Journalists, by and large, are not as good as they should be in keeping up with what happens after a large verdict even though they know full well from experience that the verdict will most likely be cut dramatically. There surely is less of an attention span than there should be.

Journalists are continuing to pay the price for the appalling situation in Iraq three years after the start of the war. We yet again call on the Iraqi authorities to carry out thorough investigations into these killings in order to quickly establish the circumstances.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

We want to have a much smaller trade and press event in central Tokyo, so all the trade people and journalists can easily come,

I think the head and the heart should be united in the strongest writing. You shouldn't lose your ability to be discerning. Good journalism should have emotional content ... Of course, you should try to present every side, and present with real empathy.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

14As Lennon stepped off the plane, a reporter came up to him and asked a question. John slapped her before heading into a limousine, according to Lennon Revealed, ... The asked me if I was faithful to my wife.

It will be interesting to see if the journalists going with the U.S. this time will be in uniform, will be basically embedded in units, acting like soldiers. This hasn't happened since World War II.

The inescapable conclusion that some could draw here is that, after a certain period of time, when the reporter is fed up with being in prison, she will make a concession. I'm not saying that's what happened here. But that's the appearance.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

The most contentious exchange occurred when Wolff went toe-to-toe with Min over their respective magazines' role in celebrity culture. Some people are journalists, and what we get paid to do is try to find facts. Other people, and I mean no disrespect whatsoever, are in the business of selling magazines, ... Your mission is singular to entertain your readers.

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.

Our position is that our reporter will not testify to the district attorney or be interviewed by the district attorney or detectives from the District Attorney's Office. The Times Leader and its reporters are not investigators for the prosecution or the defense in any case they are simply news reporters.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

I am hopeful that my very long stay in jail will serve to strengthen the bond between reporters and their sources.

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

Danny is a professional journalist and has been for more than eleven years. He is well known internationally as a reporter. Currently, he is in Pakistan to provide objective coverage of ongoing events. He has never worked for the CIA or the U.S. Government in any capacity.

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. 'Arent you discouraged by all this waste of effort' the reporter asked. Edison 'Waste Theres nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that wont work.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I don't know whether it will sell God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

While we welcome Arroyo's rescinding of the state of emergency, we call on her to prove her commitment to the safety of journalists and a free media in the Philippines.

It was almost a theatrical moment. I'll never understand why he did that. He gave his gesture, and I think the reporter was shocked that he made a story right there.

Ken Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I used the First Amendment to protect sources and to protect some journalists, and I felt very strongly about that, ... It was a serious criminal investigation, and I felt compelled to protect the sources of information and the journalists reporting the information.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

I started as a print reporter.

If we were picking a journalism all-star team, it would certainly be a different lineup. Or a bigger lineup. In some sense, a poor newspaper in a great market represents a greater opportunity, because we know how to improve a newspaper.

American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened. You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source there has to be this anonymous diplomat.

Steve was an inspirational leader because he was an exceptional individual, ... Steve cared deeply about his people, The Associated Press and what it meant to journalism. He played a pivotal role in the development of the modern AP in Europe and forever will hold a place in our hearts.

This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists Who these guys are What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings

We now know that one of the footman at the palace was a Daily Mirror journalist,