Quotes About Journalism

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

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I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.

Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn't capitalize on that.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another.

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.