Journalism Skills Quotes

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

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

I have my limited skills as a journalist and a father, and the journalist part is really part of my mindset, to use my skills to try to solve problems.

Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

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.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.

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.

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

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.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

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.

More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.