Quotes on Journalism

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Author: Mary Beard

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Author: Ben Bradlee

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Author: Tom Brokaw

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Author: Gerald Clarke

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Author: Gerald Clarke

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Author: Mason Cooley

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

Author: Marguerite Duras

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

Author: Marguerite Duras

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Author: Warren Ellis

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Author: Harold Evans

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

Author: Horace Greeley

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Author: Graham Greene

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Author: Thomas Griffith

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Author: Christie Hefner

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Author: Guillermo Infante

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

Author: Johannes Jensen

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

Author: Bill Kovach

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Author: Charles Kuralt

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Author: Jim Lehrer

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Author: Jim Lehrer

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Author: Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Author: Jim Lehrer

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Author: Annie Leibovitz

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.

Author: Kurt Loder

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Author: Kurt Loder

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Author: Humphrey Lyttelton

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Author: Robert McChesney

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Author: Roger Mudd

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.

Author: Pat Oliphant

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Author: Michael Pollan

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

Author: John Pomfret

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Author: Robert Scheer

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Author: David Strathairn

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Author: David Talbot

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Author: Bob Woodward

Quotes on Journalism

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

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

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

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

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

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

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 came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

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.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.