Mind Quote by Elmer Davis

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content…

— Mark Twain

In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.

— Michael Wolff

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

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good…

— Walter Cronkite

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

— Thomas Carlyle

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make…

— Mark Twain

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

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

— Robert Gottlieb

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

— Trish Regan