Quotes About Journalism

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn't come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It's the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It's the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.

Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.

Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.

What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape in online journalism.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in 17th century England. —RICHARD SAUL WURMAN

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists. But some people, operating at higher levels of mental health, pursue activities because they actually love them.

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

I am not Laura Kuenssberg and I'm never going to be.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

I've always sort of listened to news radio.

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.

The media exaggerate little things.

I'd like to become a female Louis Theroux.

I think I have a loyalty to try to make the best news show I can every day.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.