- Genuine
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- 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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- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020