Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English journalist William Thomas Stead.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
William Thomas Stead was a British newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era. Stead published a series of hugely influential campaigns whilst editor of The Pall Mall Gazette, and he is best known for his 1885 series of articles, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. These were written in support of a bill, later dubbed the "Stead Act", that raised the age of consent from 13 to 16.
What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.
The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.
It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.