Top 1200 Investigative Journalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.

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

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.

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

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

In journalism, I have done many a bad report. Some have been exceptionally terrible.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.