Journalism Quotes

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Campbell Brown

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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

Kurt Loder

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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.

Matthew Heineman

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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

Dan Jenkins

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When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

Julie Chen

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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Andy Grove

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There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

James Nesbitt

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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

John Pomfret

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Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Gwen Ifill

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If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

Sophia Bush

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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

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I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

Tom Rachman

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I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Henry R. Luce

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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.

Tom Brokaw

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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Graham Greene

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I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

Rush Limbaugh

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Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.

George Packer

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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Ritter Beard

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Growing up, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. I wanted to be Oprah.

Eva Gutowski

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

Michael Pollan

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The '30 for 30' strand started life as a series of behind-the-scenes docs for the sports channel ESPN. It has now spawned an equally fascinating series of podcasts. Like the films, these podcasts don't rely on access, the usual currency of sports journalism, and are strangely excited by stories that are complicated and require telling at length.

David Hepworth

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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Lord Northcliffe

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

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