#journalist

I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change. Your reporting should move people and motivate people to change the world. Maybe this is too idealistic. Young people who want to be journalists must, first, study and, second, recognize that they should never be the heroes of the story. ..A journalist must be curious, and must be humble. --Zhou Yijun ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#cats #curiosity #curious #follow #good

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#big #big news #colleagues #confirmed #down

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#here #journalists #like #maligned #much

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#financial #i #journalist #years

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#journalist #late #london #rock #sort

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#journalist #learned #politician #probably #ridiculous

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#fantastic #haven #herd #journalistic #last

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra? ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #communists #designer #fashion #glasses