- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism Quotes
On deadlines, doubt, and the line between reporting and opinion.
One line here draws a sharp distinction between straight reporting and an opinion column, framing them as almost entirely different kinds of reading, while another describes the tired, edgy mood that seems to suit the job. If you want more on the craft itself, browse our More quotes.
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- New Era
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
- Limitations
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020