#journalism

...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story. ↗

— Ted Conover

#travel-writing #experience

Journalism is an act of faith in the future ↗

— Ann Curry

#journalism #faith

We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#insight #journalism #humor

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession. ↗

— Rebekah Brooks

#industry #journalism #make #our #quality

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#journalism #keep #kill #while #will

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

— Bob Greene

#meat-and-potatoes #performed #reporters #service #wire

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation. ↗

— Don Hewitt

#confront #confrontation #dirty #journalism #just

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. ↗

— Ted Conover

#new-journalism #on-fiction #storytelling #writing #change

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #ago #cares #free #free press