Accuracy Quote by Charles Osgood

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

— David Grann

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make…

— Dan Rather

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have…

— Anonymous

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

— Charles Revson

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do…

— Martha MacCallum

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

— Susan Glaspell

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing…

— Russell Baker

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

— Jim Acosta