You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don’t bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It’s an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. – Kurt Loder
Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism. – Juan Williams
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can’t try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you. – Karen Abbott
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn’t really happen the way you want it to. – John Pomfret
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album. – Lil Wayne
My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes. – Johnny Colt
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. – Michael Pollan
I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way. – John Harwood
In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training. – Kathleen Flinn
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. – Joe Klein
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. – Lawrence Wright
My cure for writer’s block is to step away from the thing I’m stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It’s usually not the writing itself that I’m stuck on, but thing I’m trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once. – Jess Walter
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals – Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine – which set the agenda. – Michael Pollan
It’s the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you’re able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do. – Kara Swisher
We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren’t enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase – long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative. – Lynn Coady
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism. – Molly Ivins
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. – Juan Williams
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something – and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too – you’re going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don’t suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. – Jon Ronson
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn’t doing its job any more. It’s about selling stuff. – Lance Reddick
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the ‘Boston Phoenix.’ I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone. – James Fallows
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes. – Johnny Colt
I think it’s this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences. – Katherine Boo
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. – Julian Assange
