Careful Quote by Dave deBronkart

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

— Edna Buchanan

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote…

— Jacob Weisberg

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

— Alexandra Petri

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

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

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who…

— Carolyn Hart

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

— Karl Kraus

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

— Mike Wallace

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than…

— Howard Rheingold

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

— Keith Allen

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we…

— Bryan Procter