Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

She still loved the profession and enjoyed the lives and piece to cameras, but she knew it was all a tad too farcical at times. There were far too many stories they reported and forgot. Far too many conflicts that were once headlines and had captured the imaginations of many now awaited resolution, stale and unwanted as yesterday’s tea. It was hard to keep up your spirit when you started realizing it was just a job after all and that a headline did not change someone’s destiny. Except maybe the reporter’s if she or he was picked up by a rival channel for better pay. So getting into the profession wanting to make a difference and working for the greater good as the journalists of yore had done was certainly not an option anymore.

Since most of the traditional news publishing industry is hugely dependent on corporate sponsorship (except for a few publishers funded by people), even their news can be manipulated for the benefit of the sponsors or political lobbies. So, in the end, it all comes down to journalistic integrity - it comes down to the ethical grounds of the real conscientious journalists.

The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories in the days before the Internet. Before it was fashionable to learn Mass Communication. A long time before being a TV reporter and calling up your family to see your face beamed to their homes was an in thing. They were those who had left their families behind as they pursued the truth, opting to go to jail when the government hounded them to reveal their sources. Men and women that would rather quit than write editorials the management wanted them to write. Journalists who never wrote a word they would have to disown. Journalists who took their last breath as they wrote an article was true to what they believed in. They would never sit down and take stock of the stories they had covered and written saying, “So what if twenty of these are non-stories, I at least had five I believed in.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!

The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.

They were going to the house of a man who was shot dead. What was with all the exuberance? But maybe that was the only way you could move forward after mindlessly recording stories of brutality and violence for days on end? Maybe detachment was the only way. But if you could not be passionate about your job, what was the point in doing it?

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION! Birgit Von Schondorf

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not understand, is a very corrupting thing.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'