Journalism Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer

Newspapers should have no friends.

— Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

— Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they…

— Joseph Pulitzer

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality,…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a…

— Joseph Pulitzer

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue…

— Joseph Pulitzer

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news…

— Joseph Pulitzer

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre…

— Joseph Pulitzer