Margarita Simonyan Quotes

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

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.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

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

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.