Journalism Quotes

738 Journalism quotes by 461 unique authors

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art — Dan Rather
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going… — David Remnick
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential… — Ilan Stavans
Journalism is less addictive than communism. — Dan Rather
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. — Hedrick Smith
... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although… — Nicholas von Hoffman
Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of… — Kurt Loder
No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted… — Shashi Tharoor
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter… — Andrew Marr
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. — Karl Kraus
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business. — Frank Miller
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows… — Andrew Marr
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip. — Andrew Marr
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with… — Oscar Wilde
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and… — Marguerite Duras
Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the… — Oscar Wilde
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. — Peggy Noonan
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a… — Evelyn Waugh
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling… — Otis Chandler
Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any… — Ben Bradlee

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