Nick Denton Quotes

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

Journalism is not writing.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Great questions make great reporting.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.