Quotes about Journalist

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. Votes: 4

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it. Votes: 3

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'. Votes: 3

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. Votes: 3

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course. Votes: 3

Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie. Votes: 3

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. Votes: 2

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! Votes: 2

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol. Votes: 2

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Votes: 2

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts. Votes: 2

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. Votes: 2

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. Votes: 2

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. Votes: 2

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. Votes: 2

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. Votes: 2

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. Votes: 2

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. Votes: 2

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information. Votes: 2

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Votes: 2

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain. Votes: 2

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say. Votes: 2

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. Votes: 2

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to! Votes: 2

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. Votes: 2

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. Votes: 2

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time. Votes: 2

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. Votes: 2

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Votes: 2

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. Votes: 2

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards. Votes: 2

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. Votes: 2

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. Votes: 2

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. Votes: 2

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. Votes: 2

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world. Votes: 2

A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? Votes: 2

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. Votes: 2

Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite. Votes: 2

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. Votes: 2

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Votes: 2

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' Votes: 2

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. Votes: 2

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. Votes: 2

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness. Votes: 2

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. Votes: 2

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. Votes: 2

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. Votes: 2

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. Votes: 2

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. Votes: 2

The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet... Votes: 2

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister. Votes: 2

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. Votes: 2

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees. Votes: 2

Never trust a journalist. Votes: 0

My father was a journalist. Votes: 0

Bad manners make a journalist. Votes: 0

I used to be a journalist. Votes: 0

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. Votes: 0

I see myself as a recovering journalist. Votes: 0

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. Votes: 0

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother. Votes: 0

It is a depressing business talking to journalist. Votes: 0

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. Votes: 0

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda. Votes: 0

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity. Votes: 0

I am not insecure about being a journalist. Votes: 0

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. Votes: 0

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist and that's what I do. Votes: 0

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. Votes: 0

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Votes: 0

I would never let myself knock out a journalist. Votes: 0

A journalist is a reporter out of a job. Votes: 0

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness. Votes: 0

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. Votes: 0

As a journalist, the details always tell the story. Votes: 0

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. Votes: 0

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist. Votes: 0

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. Votes: 0

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. Votes: 0

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist, Votes: 0

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. Votes: 0

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist? Votes: 0

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time. Votes: 0

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do. Votes: 0

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. Votes: 0

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. Votes: 0

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. Votes: 0

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions. Votes: 0

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) Votes: 0

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits Votes: 0

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman. Votes: 0

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist. Votes: 0

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. Votes: 0

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. Votes: 0

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. Votes: 0

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. Votes: 0

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. Votes: 0

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. Votes: 0

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters. Votes: 0

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist; I run to the fire, that's what we do. Votes: 0

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. Votes: 0

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]. Votes: 0

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know. Votes: 0

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio. Votes: 0

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy. Votes: 0

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. Votes: 0

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. Votes: 0

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights. Votes: 0

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. Votes: 0

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. Votes: 0

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. Votes: 0

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time Votes: 0

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul. Votes: 0

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers. Votes: 0

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist. Votes: 0

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Votes: 0

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist. Votes: 0

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. Votes: 0

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist. Votes: 0

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article. Votes: 0

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion. Votes: 0

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. Votes: 0

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries? Votes: 0

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. Votes: 0

I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop. Votes: 0

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. Votes: 0

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. Votes: 0

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Votes: 0

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity. Votes: 0

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world. Votes: 0

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style Votes: 0

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important. Votes: 0

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst. Votes: 0

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. Votes: 0

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. Votes: 0

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States. Votes: 0

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist. Votes: 0

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. Votes: 0

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul. Votes: 0

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk. Votes: 0

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news. Votes: 0

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician. Votes: 0

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer. Votes: 0

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless. Votes: 0

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. Votes: 0

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. Votes: 0

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it. Votes: 0

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. Votes: 0

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist. Votes: 0

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. Votes: 0

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. Votes: 0

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure. Votes: 0

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it. Votes: 0

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys. Votes: 0

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure. Votes: 0

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. Votes: 0

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. Votes: 0

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. Votes: 0

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million. Votes: 0

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist. Votes: 0

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters. Votes: 0

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist. Votes: 0

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist Votes: 0

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. Votes: 0

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. Votes: 0

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism. Votes: 0

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved. Votes: 0

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. Votes: 0

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s. Votes: 0

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. Votes: 0

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. Votes: 0

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist. Votes: 0

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories. Votes: 0

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter. Votes: 0

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. Votes: 0

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. Votes: 0

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. Votes: 0

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. Votes: 0

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture. Votes: 0

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. Votes: 0

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Votes: 0

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. Votes: 0

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. Votes: 0

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures. Votes: 0

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it. Votes: 0

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. Votes: 0

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't. Votes: 0

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track Votes: 0

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything. Votes: 0

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. Votes: 0

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job. Votes: 0

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! Votes: 0

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? Votes: 0

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. Votes: 0

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. Votes: 0

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print Votes: 0

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining. Votes: 0

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective. Votes: 0

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. Votes: 0

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader. Votes: 0

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective. Votes: 0

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. Votes: 0

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. Votes: 0

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. Votes: 0

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Votes: 0

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. Votes: 0

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. Votes: 0

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me. Votes: 0

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse. Votes: 0

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. Votes: 0

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. Votes: 0

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy. Votes: 0

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course. Votes: 0

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist. Votes: 0

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. Votes: 0

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do. Votes: 0

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me. Votes: 0

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. Votes: 0

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference. Votes: 0

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. Votes: 0

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective. Votes: 0

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. Votes: 0

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like. Votes: 0

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. Votes: 0

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. Votes: 0

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. Votes: 0

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Votes: 0

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!" Votes: 0

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that. Votes: 0

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air. Votes: 0

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. Votes: 0

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist. Votes: 0

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. Votes: 0

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. Votes: 0

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer Votes: 0

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure. Votes: 0

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not. Votes: 0

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work. Votes: 0

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on? Votes: 0

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who. Votes: 0

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all. Votes: 0

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say. Votes: 0

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success. Votes: 0

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones. Votes: 0

I'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what's going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths. Votes: 0

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup. Votes: 0

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk. Votes: 0

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. Votes: 0

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. Votes: 0

I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country. Votes: 0

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world. Votes: 0

Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine. Votes: 0

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference. Votes: 0

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name. Votes: 0

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. Votes: 0

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist. Votes: 0

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. Votes: 0

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives. Votes: 0

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. Votes: 0

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist. Votes: 0

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity. Votes: 0

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. Votes: 0

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is. Votes: 0

What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was. Votes: 0

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood. Votes: 0

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. Votes: 0

As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you. Votes: 0

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me. Votes: 0

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. Votes: 0

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. Votes: 0

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure. Votes: 0

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round. Votes: 0

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue. Votes: 0

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line. Votes: 0

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else. Votes: 0

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal. Votes: 0

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from. Votes: 0

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'. Votes: 0

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude. Votes: 0

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred. Votes: 0

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people. Votes: 0

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. Votes: 0

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. Votes: 0

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film. Votes: 0

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist. Votes: 0

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles. Votes: 0

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. Votes: 0

People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background. Votes: 0

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. Votes: 0

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. Votes: 0

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people. Votes: 0

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. Votes: 0

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. Votes: 0

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there. Votes: 0

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. Votes: 0

I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor. Votes: 0

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer. Votes: 0

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails. Votes: 0

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may. Votes: 0

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous. Votes: 0

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard. Votes: 0

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. Votes: 0

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days. Votes: 0

I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers. Votes: 0

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist. Votes: 0

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play. Votes: 0

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found. Votes: 0

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it. Votes: 0

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet. Votes: 0

If you want to take off your journalist outfit and declare yourself a pundit and go argue against Donald Trump, go for it. But you can't wear both hats. Votes: 0

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover. Votes: 0

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level. Votes: 0

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill. Votes: 0

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. Votes: 0

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school. Votes: 0

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. Votes: 0

If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian. Votes: 0

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining. Votes: 0

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. Votes: 0

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine. Votes: 0

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage. Votes: 0

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity. Votes: 0

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist. Votes: 0

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all. Votes: 0

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work. Votes: 0

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it. Votes: 0

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Votes: 0

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur. Votes: 0

To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American. Votes: 0

I was...a journalist...though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives. Votes: 0

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16. Votes: 0

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. Votes: 0

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount. Votes: 0

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story. Votes: 0

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. Votes: 0

Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it. Votes: 0

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. Votes: 0

The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong. Votes: 0

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do. Votes: 0

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know. Votes: 0

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun. Votes: 0

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story. Votes: 0

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream. Votes: 0

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?' Votes: 0

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it. Votes: 0

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine. Votes: 0

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. Votes: 0

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world. Votes: 0

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine. Votes: 0

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. Votes: 0

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. Votes: 0

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life. Votes: 0

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. Votes: 0

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians. Votes: 0

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. Votes: 0

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting. Votes: 0

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. Votes: 0

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Votes: 0

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people. Votes: 0

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. Votes: 0

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved. Votes: 0

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist. Votes: 0

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world youre in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree. Votes: 0

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree. Votes: 0

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around. Votes: 0

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family. Votes: 0

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it. Votes: 0

I think because I came from a very strong news background and people were aware of me from that side of things, they appreciated me as a journalist. Maybe it was less difficult for me. Votes: 0

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated. Votes: 0

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. Votes: 0

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist. Votes: 0

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it. Votes: 0

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist. Votes: 0

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet. Votes: 0

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more. Votes: 0