Given Quote by Ben Bradlee

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's…

— Ben Aaronovitch

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell…

— Jack Germond

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's…

— Alex Gibney

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

— Ana Kasparian

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness…

— Edward Jay Epstein

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to…

— Brian Stelter

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one…

— Walter Cronkite

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what…

— Glenn Greenwald

The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news…

— Bill Kovach

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons…

— Robert Caro