Quotes About Journalism

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

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

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.