Details Quote by Karen Abbott

“I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight,…

— Judy Polumbaum

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

— Jodi Kantor

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't…

— Jimmy Breslin

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories…

— Leslie Cockburn

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must…

— Rupert Murdoch

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel,…

— Lydia Polgreen

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or…

— Joel Stein

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that…

— Charles Kuralt

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which…

— Dave Barry

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a…

— Amy Hempel

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't…

— John Pomfret