Journalist Quotes

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.
Alan Price

Truth, Everything, Sometimes

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
Alexandra Kerry

Impossible, Show, Choice

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.
Tina Brown

Young, Moment, Write

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.
Tina Brown

Best, Yourself, Nothing

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.
Linda Vester

Sometimes, Easy, Makes

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell

Power, War, Political

I'm a lousy journalist.
Judith Rossner

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

Impossible, Difficult, Name

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
Louise Penny

Good, Great, Hope

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
Louise Penny

Book, Lazy, Discipline

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

Learned, Ridiculous, Says

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams

Amazing, Dad, Down

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
Nanci Griffith

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
Robert Fisk

History, Truth, Job

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
Melvin Maddocks

Nothing, Defensive, Idealistic

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.
Harry Reasoner

Good, Live, Report

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.
Michael Winterbottom

Child, Story, British

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

Learned, Author

I see myself as a recovering journalist.
Annalena McAfee

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.
Amy Vanderbilt

Made, Find, Try

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Todor Zhivkov

Good, Write, Writes

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.
Jill Dando

Mean, Serious, Hair

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
May Sinclair

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

America, Rest, Useful

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
Paula Zahn

Challenge, Greater, Happening

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.
Paula Zahn

Mother, Job, Play

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
Anthony Shadid

Life, Understand, Try

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.
Jim Lynch

Down, Try, Difficult

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