Quotes and Sayings About Journalism
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
-- Abe Fortas -
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.
-- Alec Soth -
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
-- Amira Hass -
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
-- Andrew Marr -
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
-- Andrew Marr -
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
-- Andrew Vachss -
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
-- Andrew Vachss -
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 -
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
-- Andy Grove -
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
-- Anthony Sampson -
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
-- Anthony Shadid -
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
-- Anthony Shadid -
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 -
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
-- Ben Bradlee -
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
-- Bill Keller -
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
-- Bill Moyers -
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
-- Bill Moyers -
I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
-- Bob Schieffer -
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
-- Bob Woodward -
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
-- Brit Hume
