The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was ‘What have you done for me today?’ Yesterday was for the history books,...

Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead...

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

When journalists are ‘accused’ of being ‘advocates’, that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama are subtly infused with facts, altering the truth in a similar...

Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the dominant symbolic order. However, since the 1990s, post-modern and post-structural theory...

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current...

Journalism can be lethal

News is only the first rough draft of history.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I’d written this kind of thing two years ago I’d pick up the New York Times and see myself mangled all over the Op-Ed page…...

Einen guten Journalisten erkennt man daran, dass er sich nicht gemein macht mit einer Sache, auch nicht mit einer guten Sache; dass er überall dabei ist, aber nirgendwo dazugehört

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

The author, from Falkirk, Scotland, daringly managed to infiltrate the terrorist group — responsible for the deaths of countless Muslims and non-Muslims — by offering to help bankroll terrorist attacks on the UK.

Mr. Brokaw’s successive accomplishments in broadcast journalism over the last 40 years, along with his more recent achievements in documentary reporting and authorship, have enlightened audiences, providing them with a unique perspective on our nation...

…looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?”Not entirely.”Did you enjoy any of it?”I liked going to the library,’ he says. ‘I think I prefer books to people — primary sources scare...

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat.Mrs. Graham paused. ‘Tell me,’ she said.Woodward froze. He said he would give her the name if she wanted. He was praying she...

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production...

I’d very much like to ‘conclude’ something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a commitment to get to the bottom of the matter, to investigate, to come...

You see, Monsieur, it’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’spowers of appreciation, one’s critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, andtook to so much...

If we were picking a journalism all-star team, it would certainly be a different lineup. Or a bigger lineup. In some sense, a poor newspaper in a great market represents a greater opportunity, because we...

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America — and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try,...

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There’s a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has...

I’ve always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I’ve done bits of journalism.

One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a...

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History...

Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preeminence in American journalism.That vision had suffered a setback in 1971 when the Times published the Pentagon Papers. Though...

Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience…. If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential...

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

Traditional journalism, where reporters deliver information in a balanced and unbiased fashion, is rapidly fading into obscurity. This is especially evident on television where high profile reporters become bigger than the story, delivering news with...

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person’s statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist…You know the sort. He’s lived in the Middle East for a little over five minutes so assumes he knows us natives well. I sip at a...

I do not believe the press is guilty of the charge that it abandoned its healthy skepticism in Iraq , and I would hate to see it draw the inference from New Orleans that ‘in...

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that’s where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They’re the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the...

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the...

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of...

O jornalista é um poeta delicado: sempre acha o rascunho mais sincero do que o publicado.

vista dos autos”, paralisando a análise do caso.

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn’t include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on...