- 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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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I really believe good journalism is good business.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expected to go into journalism or law.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020