Judith Rossner Quotes

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

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

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

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'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.

Journalism is not writing.

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.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

My father was a journalist.

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

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

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

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

I think every journalist understands when they are the beneficiary of hot information that, yes, they have a scoop, but they're also being used. Part of your responsibility as a journalist is to tell the story of why that information is coming to you, consistent with the ground rules of your sourcing.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

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