Columnists Quote by Allan Sloan

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't…

— Serge Schmemann

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

— Jim Lehrer

Journalism is organized gossip.

— Edward Eggleston

“Service journalists. That's how an editor-in-chief described us to a roomful of corporate communicators. We are, he said, purveyors of ideas, of information and…

— Lionel L. Fisher

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism…

— Sarah

“Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip,…

— Chris Rose

A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide…

— Sucheta Dalal

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

— John Chancellor

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

— Maureen Dowd

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

— Kevin Rose