Money Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

“Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many…

— Ryan Holiday

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make…

— Tim Hetherington

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create…

— Bill Kovach

“Newspapers struggle with the choice between using in-house journalists to produce content and aggregating content produced by others.”

— Bharat Anand

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

— Walter Cronkite

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in…

— Andrew Ferguson

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to…

— Brian Stelter

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part…

— Soha Ali Khan