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Quotes About Journalism

I am doing communications in journalism to do sports broadcasting. I'd love to go into that kind of stuff.
~ MyKayla Skinner
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations and so on.
~ Michael Rosen
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
~ Terry Pratchett
I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.
~ Tomi Lahren
I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
~ Jeannette Walls
I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.
~ Alex Tizon
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
~ Freeman Dyson
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
~ Clare Balding
Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.
~ Shana Alexander
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
~ Tucker Carlson
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
~ Diane Sawyer
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.
~ Charlie Rose
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
~ Karl Kraus
I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.
~ Maria Ressa
To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.
~ Winnie Harlow
I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.
~ Marcia Muller
I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.
~ Gwen Ifill
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.
~ William T. Vollmann
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
~ Ana Patricia Botin
I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.
~ Sandra Oh
I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.
~ Daniel Berehulak
I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
~ Ian Mckellen