journalism profession Quotes

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

Somebody ought to do on article on you, on your damn profession, your 1st Amendment.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

There is no news industry.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

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.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

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.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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

It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

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

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.