It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.
Journalism is the first draft of history
The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.
There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of.
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Journalism is the first rough draft of history
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R. Murrow.
And I really believe good journalism is good business.
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.