She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could.
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact...
I'm sure it's all journalism [...] It means it's true enough for now.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of...
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
News is the first rough draft of history.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.