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. – Annie Leibovitz
There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. – Brit Hume
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don’t know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. – Gary Ackerman
‘Ugly Betty’ has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism – I’m looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don’t know. Will I appear on ‘Glee?’ – Mark Indelicato
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time. – Chris Hughes
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That’s not a record to be proud of. – Daniel Silva
Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read. – Frank Zappa
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. – Glenn Greenwald
Most of us entered journalism and joined ‘news organizations’ because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. – David Shuster
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. – Matt Taibbi
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. – Chris Hughes
I have a journalism degree, but I’d rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing. – Chris Jericho
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism. – Mary Ritter Beard
I mean, journalism is very detailed… you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don’t think that a feature film is really a place where that happens. – Mark Boal
In Haiti, it – people seemed – in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn’t seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels. – Carol Guzy
Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable – I hope. – David Horsey
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest… I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. – Gary Coleman
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do. – Glenn Greenwald
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC – those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world. – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
My aunt got me interested in journalism – she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, ‘Play like you’re a writer.’ – Dan Jenkins
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn’t cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. – Nick Denton
I always lamented that I wasn’t a writer during the late ’60s and the early ’70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people. – Meghan Daum
I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn’t cut out for that line of work. I mean… there’s a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn’t. – Nolan North
I’m fortunate to work for a company that supports investigative journalism with strong editors and lawyers. That’s the benefit of working for a company that’s been around for more than a century. – Matt Apuzzo
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at ‘In These Times’, and it’s in my blood. – Chris Hayes
Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it’s a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it’s supposed to be, you know, that’s supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it’s unbelievable. It’s shocking. – George Lois
My favorite thing is still journalism. I’m almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college. – David Talbot
