#journalist

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. ↗

— David Bailey

#joking #journalists #make #never #you

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. ↗

— Eason Jordan

#information #innocent #innocent people #journalistic #killed

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#considered #i #journalist #much #peers

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon. ↗

— David Talbot

#editorial #ever #gratifying #here #how

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. ↗

— Kate Adie

#armed #contrary #danger #escort #even

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#because #before #biases #conduct #i

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas. ↗

— Jim Walton

#before #cnn #dangerous #deploying #equip