Behinds Quote by Margaret Atwood

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at…

— Janeane Garofalo

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top…

— Tom Brokaw

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

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

— Garrett Graff

I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so…

— James G. Stavridis

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be…

— Cecelia Ahern

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

“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

I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as…

— Jill Abramson

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing…

— Sheri Fink

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead…

— Claire Fox