Best 546 quotes in «journalism quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The best fiction is far more true than any 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.

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

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

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

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 press is the enemy.

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

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

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

The real news is bad news.

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

There is no reason to confuse television news with 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 quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.