Journalist Quotes · Page 19

“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.”

— Lennox Morrison

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

— Michael Arrington

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

— Edna Buchanan

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

— Wolf Blitzer

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

— Barton Gellman

I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the…

— Ben Howard

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course…

— Masha Gessen

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

— Rik Mayall

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our…

— Jill Abramson

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live…

— Jeremy Scahill

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that…

— Andy Ngo

I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated…

— Michael Sandel

But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons…

— James Ponsoldt

“It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was…

— Terry Pratchett

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in…

— Russell Baker

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a…

— Al Jourgensen

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on…

— Caitlin Moran

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more…

— Katharine Graham

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…

— Neil Gaiman

Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness…

— Lewis H. Lapham

...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been…

— Naomi Ragen

“because I got distracted Googling for information on the nanny murder (a good journalist always checks her facts, particularly when the primary…

— Sarah Alderson

Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the…

— Chelsea Handler

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

— Peter Jennings

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

— Glenn Danzig

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he…

— Clive Owen

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

— Laurie Garrett

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense…

— Jackie Kennedy

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a…

— Bruce Feirstein

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

— Barkha Dutt

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

— Sebastian Junger

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better…

— Daniel Berehulak

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

— Karl Kraus

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

— Leonard Cohen

I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.

— Vladimir Putin

Obviously, if I cared about what people said about my reporting, I wouldn't be a good journalist.

— Sharyl Attkisson

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

— Asne Seierstad

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting…

— Fiona Barton