Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters’ typewriters as they wrote, passed them questions as they talked on...

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help...

It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something...

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it’s reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

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.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu’ils ne valent que pour ce qu’ils ont transmis.

Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi’s and Nikes, grab their caps...

gazetecilerin kariyerleri de sporcularınki gibi kısacıktır. şan ve şöhrete erkenden ulaşır ve çok geçmeden yerimizi sonraki nesle bırakırız. yoluna devam edip yükselenlerin sayısı azdır. diğerlerininse yaşam koşulları kötüleşir, basını eleştirmeye başlarlar, bloglar açarlar, seminerler verirler...

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein’s name could appear with his on the follow-up story – though Bernstein was still in Miami and had...

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s feelings.

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who...

Forgoing privacy in a quest for absolute safety is as harmful to a healthy psyche and life of an individual as it is to a healthy political culture. For the individual, safety first means a...

…Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, or is it like shares of a stock, which may have great value one day, and be...

Traditional journalism provides the view from the outside looking in, and citizen journalism provides the view from the inside looking out. In order to tell the complete story, you need both points of view.

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

Quit your bitching, if you’re not pitching