Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
Thomas Griffith

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.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Thomas Griffith

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
David Talbot

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

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

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Andrew Vachss

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
Howard Kurtz

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Harrison Salisbury

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Horace Greeley

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Archibald MacLeish

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras