Journalism Training Quotes

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

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I've often felt that it was important to have an MMA media association, not so much to fight battles and things of that nature but also to teach a lot of the younger journalists.

I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.

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.

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.