Best Good Journalism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.”

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“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?”

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Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.”

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Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.”

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Author:Daniel Schorr

“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.”

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Author:Lionel Barber

“Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.”

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Author:David Simon

“Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.”

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Book:Since predator came: notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation

Source: Since predator came: notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation

“I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

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Book:Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel

Source: Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel

“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.”

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Author:Lachlan Murdoch

“I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.”

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Author:Lachlan Murdoch

“Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and our tax dollars. We would know much less about the powers of the Executive, and its ability to hide wrong doing behind secrecy and classification. The Center takes the notion of integrity very seriously, and its investigations are a model for today's good journalism and, we all hope, an inspiration for the mainstream press to do more.”

“Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.”

“And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.”

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Author:Christiane Amanpour

“If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.”

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Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“And I really believe good journalism is good business.”

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Author:Christiane Amanpour

“Nothing will replace good journalism.”

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Author:Alexis Ohanian

“If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.”

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Author:Ben Bradlee

“If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.”

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Author:Bill Kovach

“At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.”

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Author:Jim C. Walton

“The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.”

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Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.”

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Author:Carl Bernstein

“The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.”

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Author:John Chancellor

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