415 Journalism Quotes for You to Enjoy

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. David Shuster

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Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. David Talbot

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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. David Talbot

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer. Dennis Lehane

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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums. Doreen Cronin

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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. Drew Curtis

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I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed. Dylan Moran

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There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. Eduardo Galeano

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In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step. Edward P. Jones

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There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy. Eula Biss

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I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition. Eve Arnold

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I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism. Francine Prose

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All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism? Frank Harris

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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors. Franklin Foer

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Profiles aren't journalism. Fred Wilson

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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. George Packer

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