Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Kovach

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.

The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.