Journalist Quotes · Page 21

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the…

— Graham Hancock

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

— Indro Montanelli

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

— Harry Redknapp

When I applied for Channel 4 I was a sports journalist. I saw it as another sports journalism job, if I'm honest.

— Alex Brooker

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

— Eric Alterman

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

— Amala Paul

“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.”

— Lavie Tidhar

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

— Jill Dando

“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on…

— George Packer

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be…

— Billy Bragg

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and…

— Mackenzie Astin

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the…

— Jim Acosta

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter…

— Jorge Ramos

I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of…

— Tom Stoppard

I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to…

— Ariel Pink

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are…

— Norman Mailer

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

Every day, there'd be somebody interviewing me as a "lesbian living in Russia." It got to the point where I would joke…

— Masha Gessen

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to…

— Romola Garai

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…

— Geraldine Brooks

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at…

— Eddie Cibrian

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into…

— Evelyn Waugh

Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with…

— Jeremy Scahill

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

— Rajinikanth

“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.”

— Germany Kent

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

— John le Carre

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of…

— Joe Sacco

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just…

— Bashar al-Assad

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and…

— Walter Lippmann

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

— Jessica Savitch

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

— Felix Dennis

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who…

— Jorge Ramos

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

— Kellyanne Conway

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

— Walter Cronkite

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

— Glenn Greenwald

“As a photo-journalist your presence anywhere is as welcome as turd falling into a Ming vase.”

— Steve Merrick

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

— Patricia Moyes

I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.

— Antara Mali