Class Quote by Amy Waldman

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to…

— John Pomfret

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty…

— Lawrence Wright

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

— Nancy Pearcey

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

— Nicholas Lemann

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

— Jan Chipchase

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it…

— John Pomfret

A lot of journalists help us to better understand the world by zooming out and sometimes zooming in on a really important case but…

— Rutger Bregman

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

— Katherine Boo

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch