Top 415 Journalism Quotes

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Although I’m great at political commentary and journalism, it’s not my passion. ‘Gorilla Mindset’ is.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

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

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn’t very pleasant.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life’s picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print – writing in English, interviewing Americans – validated my presence here.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren’t being told.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

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.

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.

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.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

To change the media, you’re gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you’re gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don’t get to be journalists, too – a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

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

I finished high school and studied at the University of Nebraska in the school of journalism, which really turned me onto journalism. I never finished, but the very little that I did learn in two-and-a-half-years prepared me for a career in legitimate journalism, which included WWE, AWA, WCW, and everything in-between.

I don’t personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

The public’s appetite for what sensible newspapers call ‘personality journalism’ and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

The Boston Globe’s award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well-respected media companies in the country.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That’s kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

I don’t really think of ‘Frontline’ as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.

I got rejected from journalism school!

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

I’m not in the judgment part of journalism.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it’s not like one is better than the other.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism – tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Journalism isn’t about how smart you are. It’s not about where you’re from. It’s not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It’s about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It’s about being fearless personally and professionally.

One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That’s the historic distinction in publishing, mass from class, the vulgar from the refined, tabloid from broadsheet, the penny press from papers costing a nickel.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

I was a journalism major in college, went to law school, and became a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. I loved it and was with the Department of Justice for years.

At Gallaudet, deafness isn’t an issue. You don’t even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn’t get the same access.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn’t doing its job any more. It’s about selling stuff.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

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

There’s some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it’s a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

I’m not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I’m glad I’ve escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good writing takes time.

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.

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