Behind Quote by Jill Abramson

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

— David Grann

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what…

— Herbert Bayard Swope

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

— Steve Coogan

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

— Garrison Keillor

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are…

— Tabitha Soren

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't…

— Serge Schmemann

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online…

— Rachel Parris

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

— Arthur Miller

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

— Tom Wolfe

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's…

— Peter Robinson