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“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing”

— David Halberstam

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

— Ellen Goodman

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth…

— Michael Arrington

“Subjective storytelling is now almost as common in the news media as it is in feature films, TV dramas, novels or theater shows. Journalists…

— Lance Morcan

“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at…

— Nora Ephron

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership.…

— Sean Spicer

“One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something…

— Wynant Davis Hubbard

“There is no room for passion in journalism—unless it is a passion for presenting the truth. Accurately, honestly, and unbiased.”

— M.J. Summers

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson