Better Quote by Beth Macy

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use…

— Bill Eppridge

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

— Derek Jeter

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

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting…

— Roger Ailes

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

— Scott Adams

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

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

— Annie Leibovitz

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just…

— Fred Ritchin

Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers,…

— Howard S. Becker

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge…

— Gene Weingarten