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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
— Marguerite Duras
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
— Lance Reddick
I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
— Eleanor Mondale
My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.
— Rebecca Mead
I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.
— Frank Caliendo
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
— David Halberstam
American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.
— Helen Thomas
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
— Andrew Vachss
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
— Steven D. Levitt
Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
— David Halberstam
I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.
— Rhianna Pratchett
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
— Nora Ephron
It's the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.
— Nathan Hill
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
— Henry Rollins
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
— Anas Aremeyaw Anas
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
— Chuck Todd
Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
— Jonah Goldberg
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
— Katherine Boo
The dictator's black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons — Zoe S. Roy
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons — Zoe S. Roy
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
— Denis Diderot
Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.
— Marv Levy
Don't judge your taco by its price
— Hunter S. Thompson
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It's true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
— Brit Hume
There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.
— Mike Wallace
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
— Fred W. Friendly
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
It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.
— Alberto Cairo
It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano.
— Terry Pratchett
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. — Hunter S. Thompson
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. — Hunter S. Thompson
I escaped from an interview with that laboratory-loving doctor, Ag O. Nee, just barely by the shadow of my Nosey nose!
— I.B. Nosey
All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
— Sebastian Junger
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
— Clay Shirky
It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.
— Rebecca Aguilar
I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.
— Cecily Strong
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
— Jeannette Walls
It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.
— Helen Thomas
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
— George Packer
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
— Mandy Moore
If it's true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.
— Lance Morcan
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
— Chris Hayes
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
— Burton Rascoe
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
— Hunter S. Thompson
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
— Steve Erickson
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
— Michael Pollan
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.
— Charlie Rose
I'm sure it's all journalism [ ... ] It means it's true enough for now.
— Terry Pratchett
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
— Hunter S. Thompson
PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.
— Ronn Torossian
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
— Michael Hastings
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...
— Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
— David Frum
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
— Thomas Carlyle
What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist.
— Charles Bukowski
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
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
— Peter Landesman
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
— Pete Hamill
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
— Tabitha Soren
In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.
— Regina Brett
Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"
— Zoe Kravitz
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange
There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
— Jonathan Galassi
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
— Andrew Vachss
Here's the important lesson in electronic journalism: it's not the literary value of the words - it's the tone of the sportscaster's voice
— Bob Wolff
Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.
— E.J. Dionne Jr.
I said, 'The truth is whatever you can get away with.' 'No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.
— Greg Egan
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
— Don Hewitt
What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.
— Rick Moranis
I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
— John King
There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.
— Eula Biss
[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.
— Katie Couric
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 merely history's first draft.
— Geoffrey Ward
Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan.
— Poppy Harlow
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
— Tom Brokaw