There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.
Edward Snowden copied and leaked information from inside the world’s most protected spy agency, and then fled to Russia, but yet, because a small part of the data he expropriated was provided to a news organisation, journalism conventions readily accord him lone whistleblower status.
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and I set off to do something I loved – journalism.
Ultimately journalism has changed… partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.
Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He’s blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
What we want is responsible journalism. We want to avoid bigotry.
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
If I wasn’t an actor, I’d probably be working in journalism.
I had pictured journalism as I’d seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
I’m very committed to and interested in CNN’s journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
Journalism is about results. It’s about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.
Most magazines have become wallpaper, they’re all the same, all the same celebrities. It’s really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.
We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren’t enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase – long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
I’d like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that’s one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
I believe that ‘advocacy journalism’ is not an oxymoron. If that means that I’m going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don’t agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
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.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
The ‘Guardian”s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don’t know what you don’t know.
I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on ’20/20.’ That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.
Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
I’ve always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.
Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.
I was a broadcast journalism major at the University of Illinois, so there’s always part of you that thinks you could, or hopes you could, but it’s not like you can just walk in and get a TV job.
I have no idea who coined the term ‘the New Journalism,’ or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with ‘new’ in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, ‘On the one hand, on the other…’ and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism.
There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism – it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
I’ve been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it’s my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.
One of the great pressures we’re facing in journalism now is it’s a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
