Serious journalism need not be solemn.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

— Katharine Weymouth

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel,…

— Lydia Polgreen

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating…

— Bill Bryson

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a…

— Kara Swisher

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that…

— Heather Brooke

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

— Walter Cronkite

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious.…

— Russell Baker

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a…

— Russell Baker

To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of…

— Howard W. Hunter

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if…

— William James

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

— John Cleese

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing…

— Russell Baker

Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan