Top 1200 Investigative Journalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

To understand the current state of mind of both Sara Paretsky and her private detective alter ego, one must first roll back the clock to 1982, when Victoria Iphegenia Warshawski took her first investigative bow in 'Indemnity Only.'

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat, major in leisure studies... Okay, get a journalism major. Okay, education major, journalism major. Right. Philosophy major, right. Archeology major. I don't know, whatever it is. Major in ballroom dance, of course. It doesn't replace work. How about a major in film studies? How about a major in black studies? How about a major in women studies? How about a major in home ec? Oops, sorry! No such thing.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

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

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.