Journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television.

1. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed everything else is public relations.
George Orwell

2. The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom Stoppard

3. The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.
―William Jackson

4. I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Kate Adie

5. Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant

6. Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith

7. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

8. The duty of journalists is to tell the truth. Journalism means you go back to the actual facts, you look at the documents, you discover what the record is, and you report it that way
Noam Chomsky

9. The true function of journalism is to educate the public mind, not to stock it with wanted and unwanted impressions.
Mahatma Gandhi

10. Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle
Anonymous

11. Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
Philip L. Graham

12. I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I’m a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I’m an author, but writer… no. That’s not up to me to call myself, that’s rather lofty. It’s for the reader to decide.
Laurie Notaro

13. Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

14. Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel

15. Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that’s offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That’s my idea
Bob Costas

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

17. Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
Lachlan Murdoch

18. This is the sickest piece of journalism I have ever seen.
Neil Young

19. A pleasantly sensible piece of journalism.
Charlton Heston

20. Got a paper full of yellow journalism.
Sage Francis

21. If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
Jackson Katz

22. Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
Kazuo Ishiguro

23. Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Andrew Vachss

24. Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner’s idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism — and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he’s writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.
Hunter S. Thompson

25. Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
Otto Schily

26. Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins
Tom Stoppard

27. Journalism is organized gossip.
Edward Eggleston

28. Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

29. Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray Bradbury

30. Good journalism is good business
Anonymous

31. They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
Christiane Amanpour

32. With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
LZ Granderson

33. And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Christiane Amanpour

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

35. I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
Aaron McGruder

36. A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
M.K. Gandhi

37. Journalism an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Rebecca West

38. Journalism Is Literature In A Hurry
Anonymous

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

40. I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

41. Journalists prize independence, not teamwork.
Ken Auletta

42. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde

43. A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life – what people are interested in. That's journalism.
Burton Rascoe

44. Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

45. The quality of our democracy and the quality of our journalism are deeply entwined.
Bill Moyers

46. Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. Bill Moyers

47. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
Mahatma Gandhi

48. Journalism is printing what somebody else does not want printed. Everything else is Public Relations.
George Orwell

49. I Became A Journalist To Come As Close As Possible To The Heart Of The World
Anonymous

50. The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
Geraldo Rivera

51. Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Thomas Griffith

52. Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
Dan Rather

53. I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

54. No news – good news. No journalists – even better news.
Nicolas Bentley

55. Our Liberty Depends On The Freedom Of The Press, And That Cannot Be Limited Without being lost
Anonymous

56. Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Horace Greeley

57. It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
John Pilger

58. Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.
Newton Lee

59. Journalism is an act of faith in the future.
Ann Curry

60. Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

61.Journalists Do Not Live By Words Alone, Although Sometimes They Have To Eat Them
Anonymous

62. As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
James McBride

63. We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Dave Barry

64.3 Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

65. It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about
Anonymous

66. As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
Peter Jennings