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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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The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism is not writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
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I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
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I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects.
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