Journalist Quotes · Page 18

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or…

— Michael Dirda

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

— Fred Ritchin

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for…

— Tom Bethell

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

— Gene Weingarten

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

— Janet Malcolm

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

— David Bailey

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs…

— Stacey Dooley

It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men.…

— David Farrier

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and…

— Jeremy Paxman

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you…

— Klaus Schulze

I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that…

— Floyd Abrams

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but…

— Chelsea Manning

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about…

— Pete Earley

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person…

— Anne Roiphe

I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to…

— Dean Baquet

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But…

— Edward Snowden

I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them…

— Michael Glawogger

A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to…

— Howard Gardner

I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I…

— Chuck Klosterman

As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But…

— Joe Biden

Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an…

— Mooji

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

— Roselyne Bosch

“She’ll make an exceptional journalist. She’s articulate, strong, persuasive, argumentative, beautiful – and she’s my dearest, dearest friend.”

— Anonymous

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

— Yao Ming

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

— Jeremy Scahill

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

— Pope Francis

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since…

— Jemele Hill

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

— David Lee Roth

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a…

— Jessica Lucas

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

— Megan Fox

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

— Ray Stevenson

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what…

— Jonathon Keats

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

— Dele Momodu

“Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded”

— Anonymous

I've lost count of the number of Labour Party conferences I've attended as a journalist. But I know the first was in…

— Cathy Newman