Journalism Quotes Quotes

“The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.”
― Ken Poirot

“I seek no perfection in writing. I seek justice. Because as much as a pen can heal, it can also kill.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Journalism is all about headlines and deadlines. The adrenaline rush is real so if the news doesn't interest or invigorate you, this is probably not the profession for you.”
― Germany Kent

“War knows no boundaries. It affects us all in some way, whether we realize it or not.”
― Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

“Let us not forget the human cost of war. Let us not forget the innocent civilians who are caught in the crossfire, the families torn apart, the children who lose their innocence far too soon.”
― Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

“We must remember that behind every statistic, every headline, there are real people with real lives and real stories.”
― Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

“The forgotten faces of war are the ones who have lost everything but still find the strength to keep going.”
― Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

“But, if I was never complete, I never exaggerated. Every one of those articles was an understatement, especially where the conditions were bad, and the proof thereof is that while each article seemed to astonish other cities, it disappointed the city which was its subject.... I cut twenty thousand words out of the Philadelphia article and yet I had not written half my facts. I know a man who is making a history of the corrupt construction of the Philadelphia City Hall, in three volumes, and he grieves because he lacks space. You can’t put all the known incidents of the corruption of an American city into a book.

This is all very unscientific, but then, I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts.”
― Lincoln Steffens, The Shame Of The Cities

“The pen has always been mightier than the sword but sadly in today's journalism the ink is sponsored.”
― Amit Abraham

“I wish I could paint my pen and my words with the colour of truth.”
― Shreya Sharma

“The reality is that to do what is right, you have to do some little wrongs.”
― T.W. Lawless

“For me, journalism means being the first witness to tell the truth to the public. Going beyond your own opinions.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Exposing filth and discovering the truth are two different things. The former is reporting, the latter is journalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“I have better manners than to ask such personal questions unless it’s going to print.”
― pamela hamilton, Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale

“Most of our journalists today have nothing great to report except poking their noses into other people's family affairs.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Sometimes this story is full of love and hope. Sometimes it is full of anger and resentment. This is how I was trained to write as an anthropologist: not to avoid bias but to be up front with it.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“Journalists: Let's put the media in mediocre.”
― Michael Ray Smith

“I knew that even if I did not agree with the ideals of others, I was and always would be human. My job requires me to be impartial, and while it might not be a popular stance, it has been a guiding force in the hundreds of stories that I have covered over the years. Regardless of my subject, humanity serves as my compass.”
― Karin Mitchell, The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial

“Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing. That's true. But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm. One can hear nothing for them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina