All Quotes

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
‐‐ Leslie Cockburn

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.
‐‐ Robert Redford

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
‐‐ Ben Huh

Journalism is a Darwinian process.
‐‐ Denise Mina

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
‐‐ Harry Reasoner

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.
‐‐ Chris Milk

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
‐‐ Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
‐‐ Anthony Shadid

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.
‐‐ Mike McCue

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is in fact history on the run.
‐‐ Thomas Griffith

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.
‐‐ Steve Capus

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.
‐‐ Josh Fox

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.
‐‐ Lester Holt

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
‐‐ David Talbot

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
‐‐ Drew Curtis

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

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.
‐‐ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
‐‐ Howard Kurtz

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
‐‐ Julian Assange

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
‐‐ Harrison Salisbury

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

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

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
‐‐ Horace Greeley

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish

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

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.
‐‐ Julian Assange

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.
‐‐ Henry Grunwald

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh