“Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.” TwoStoriesRight NowPopsMagazinesJournalism Author:David Talbot
“Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.” StoriesSpecialJournalismPersecution Author:Thomas Frank
“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.” IfsWritingLooksSometimesStoriesCoursesOpportunityTermFictionClassCreativePaperMajorsHistoricalJournalismIf I CouldHistorical FictionPapersCreative WritingScandinaviansTerm Paper Author:George R. R. Martin
“In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."” TwoStoriesWonderShameJournalism Author:Robert Reich
“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.” FeelsShouldKindMeanPersonsStoriesTurnsAsksTalkingCarStudentsTypeBeatsStrangerJournalismWorriedJournalistRetiringTapeLoanEditsCapers Author:David
“At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.” StoriesPagesCoreJournalismThrillersInvestigative JournalismPages Turning Author:Hank Phillippi Ryan
“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.” ThinkingNeedsKindReasonStoriesEasyCan DoExcitedJournalismReason WhyCrucialLayersCnnGood Journalism Author:George Stroumboulopoulos
“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.” LittlesSelfStoriesBigsRealitySeemsLinesSimpleMediaMissingCrimeTelevisionTvsDramaPressesCriticsTendenciesJournalismMessThese DaysBotherComplexityPrintComplaintsAmbiguityGood StoryJournalisticSelf Contained Author:Meg Greenfield
“Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.” StoriesLanguageSexLove StoryInnocentJournalismNeutralityInnocent Love Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.” BookStoriesNewsAppreciateJournalismArticlesGood NewsGreat ArtGreat BookNews Stories Author:Angelina Jolie
“Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.” DoeRealStoriesBigsSeemsAgeTodayStreetsCrimeBeatsSellingJournalismJournalistDevicesBeing RealLots Of MoneyMobileIphonePedestriansInvestigative Journalism Author:Megan Fox