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Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

Profiles aren't journalism.

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

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material – not for telling the truth.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

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

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

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

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

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

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

The first rough draft of history.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

The real news is bad news.