Quotes About Journalism

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

I have broken a lot of stories.

We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

I'm a news junkie. I generally ad lib it. I find a story I want to key off on, open the mic, drag it in the Dropbox, and they pull it out the next morning.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

Never use 'Politico' for a source for your story.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.