“Annie: That’s it? Nobody has a story idea? James: Annie, it’s been kind of a slow week. I mean, no rappers got arrested, no movie stars were hospitalized for “exhaustion”... Annie: Come on! A new trend, a new band, there must be a story we haven’t done? Sabrina: Okay, last night on National Supersta…”— Tod Himmel, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com
“Journalists should not feel threatened when they're out in the field covering a story.”— Brian Stelter, twitter.com
“It’s always about us. Yikes. Distance is part of journalism’s discipline.”— Jill Abramson, thedailybeast.com
“These are adults who seem to be so caught up in the moment they don’t consider the implication of who they support and whether they’re doing more harm than good.”— Scaachi Koul, buzzfeed.com
“Writing headlines people click is core to journalism. The best stories have no impact if they aren’t read. But a headline is a promise that needs to be fulfilled by article. Partly that’s ethics, but pragmatically people don’t share/spread articles that broke trust (clickbait).”— Mika McKinnon, twitter.com
“Many of you in media understand why too easy access to guns is big part of the problem. Too easy access to mass media infamy following mass murder/suicide is also part of the problem. Research is more than clear at this point. Please do your part. Report responsibly, to inform. Responsible reporting…”— Zeynep Tufekci, twitter.com
“Journalism is a flashlight. Do you point it at people who already have the spotlight? Or do you point it into the dark?”— Charlotte Alter, twitter.com
“One of journalism’s most important tasks is exposing the hypocrisy of the powerful.”— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.com
“When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line.”— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com
“The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs. You wouldn’t get a Watergate, a Pentagon Papers today, because nobody can afford to let a reporter spend seven months on a story. We can. We’re working as a support function.”— Steve Bannon, bloomberg.com
“I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes. I am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything I’ve reported in this book.”— Michael Wolff, nbcnews.com
“I am not a hit man. I’m someone who just found his way into this story of our time and just wanted to tell it as clearly as possible and with as much understanding as possible.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“Now I know that there’s no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far. But for many years I was in love with journ…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Journalism isn’t a hobby for rich people to experiment with and then abandon when it becomes inconvenient for them”— Caroline Moss, twitter.com
“Digital media start ups are imploding. Alt weeklies are shuttering Glossy mags facing huge cutbacks. Find the journalism you care about and SUPPORT it.”— Clara Jeffery, twitter.com
“Media is a major component in the assumptions that inform our perspective. A focus on crime in news reporting doesn’t just change our opinions on crime in general — it makes us feel far more threatened than we should be. For most of us, perceptions are reality. When we see the world as a dangerous p…”— Tobias Rose-Stockwell, medium.com