Quotes About Journalism

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience destroyed my enthusiasm for film.

I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

My husband is a journalist as well, and while we love beaches, we can't sit for that long. If we go to a beach destination, there needs to be something else we can do there as well. I need to be around interesting and different people and cultures.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.

As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

I pivoted from a pro-Trump guy to more of a journalistic guy, and I'm going to keep making that pivot. So whenever people think of me as, like, a pro-Trump guy, I don't want people to think of me as a pro-Trump guy anymore.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.