Commentary Quote by Tina Brown

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

— Chris Abani

“Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip,…

— Chris Rose

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'm a sports columnist who specializes in social commentary.

— Jason Whitlock

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like…

— Jess Walter

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that…

— Tom Wolfe

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus…

— Jon Stewart

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

In journalism, I have done many a bad report. Some have been exceptionally terrible.

— Ravish Kumar

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

— Harold Evans