Katharine Viner Quotes

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Great questions make great reporting.

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

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

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.