Compelling Quote by Sarah Stillman

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet…

— Joe Sacco

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

— Thomas Frank

As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each…

— Gavin Esler

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

— Nicholas Lemann

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you…

— Michael Connelly

I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I…

— Shaul Schwarz

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

— Jamaica Kincaid

For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I'm very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens…

— Janet Mock

The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful…

— Caitlyn Jenner

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

— Arianna Huffington

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture,…

— Soledad O'Brien

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional…

— Anonymous