Ellen Goodman Quotes

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

I love journalism.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

My father was a journalist.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

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.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.