Journalist Quotes · Page 16

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

— Marguerite Duras

To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in…

— Doug Aitken

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a…

— Hark-Joon Lee

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night…

— Craig Ferguson

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

— Elena Anaya

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I…

— Richard Branson

When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record…

— Moby

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

— Tariq Ali

In the most polarized and passionate, the most angry and aggressive news environment in recent memory, my job as a journalist requires…

— Brooke Baldwin

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians,…

— Andrew Marr

Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers…

— Edward Snowden

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to…

— Mark Leibovich

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago.…

— Julian Assange

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that…

— Salman Rushdie

I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy…

— Nick Denton

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with…

— Liane Balaban

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for…

— Evgeny Morozov

I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the…

— Maria Bartiromo

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

— Amy Goodman

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

— Amitava Kumar

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

— Nora Ephron

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've…

— Jon Evans

“ became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”

— Henry R. Luce

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

— Pete Earley

“I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.”

— Chris Cleave

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

— Joel Stein

As a journalist, I think it's OK to feel - I think there's space for it. It's how you react to those…

— Stacey Dooley

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

— Janine di Giovanni

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the…

— Michael Azerrad

I will always treasure the nearly 3 years I spent working for James O'Keefe as an undercover journalist at Project Veritas.

— Laura Loomer

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

— Olivia Wilde

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is…

— Heather Brooke

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

— Ian Hislop

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes…

— Anna Kendrick