Journalist Quotes - page 2

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. (Carl Hiaasen)
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. View quote
Louise Penny
In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison 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. View quote
Naomi Wolf
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. View quote
Iris Chang
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. View quote
Alexandra Kerry
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. View quote
Amy Vanderbilt
I see myself as a recovering journalist. View quote
Annalena McAfee
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. View quote
Anthony Holden
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. View quote
Asne Seierstad
I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist. View quote
Benjamin Booker
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William. (Caitlin Moran)
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon. View quote
David Talbot
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. View quote
Emraan Hashmi
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts. View quote
Frederick Wiseman
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. View quote
Floyd Abrams
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way. View quote
Frank Delaney
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. View quote
Glenn Danzig
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist. View quote
Glenn Danzig
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. View quote
Henry R. Luce
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. View quote
Harry Reasoner
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. (J. Anthony Lukas)
As a journalist, the details always tell the story. View quote
James McBride
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. View quote
Jessica Savitch
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. View quote
Jill Dando
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. View quote
Jacky Ickx