Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.
The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
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.
For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
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.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.