Journalism Quotes

738 Journalism quotes by 461 unique authors

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium,… — Walter Cronkite
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough. — Walter Cronkite
And that's the way it is. — Walter Cronkite
All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. — Sebastian Junger
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. — Humphrey Lyttelton
Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play… — Roone Arledge
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people… — Bill Kovach
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw… — Jean de la Bruyere
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. — Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of… — Bill Vaughan
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to… — Tom Stoppard
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he… — Thomas Frank
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. — Stephen Fry
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. — Mahatma Gandhi
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science… — Neil Gaiman
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be… — William Gibson
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is… — Al Gore
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. — Graham Greene
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder,… — Henry Anatole Grunwald

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