Carole Radziwill Quotes

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

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

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

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

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Great questions make great reporting.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

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

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.