415 Journalism Quotes for You to Enjoy

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well. George Packer

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Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Gerald Clarke

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Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Gerald Clarke

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The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. Geraldo Rivera

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Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. Gillian Flynn

Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy. Gina Barreca

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I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism. Glenn Greenwald

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In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. Glenn Greenwald

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline. Glenn Kelman

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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. Gore Vidal

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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene

Word Bad Journalism Come Just Mean Media

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. Gwen Ifill

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself. Hailey Gates

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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form. Hampton Sides

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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it. Hampton Sides

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. Harold E. Varmus

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Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. Henry Grunwald

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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. Henry R. Luce

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More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. Henry Rollins

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Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. Howard Kurtz

Seems Recovered Journalism Being Reason

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began. Hubert Burda

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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. Ian Hislop

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