“You can dress it up with talk of glamour and bunny ears and fishnets, you can talk about his contribution to gonzo journalism, you can contextualise his drive to free up sex as part of the sexual revolution. But strip it all back and he was a man who bought and sold women to other men.”— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com
“'I will never put on paper and release something that I do not believe is true.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know ho…”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass in this very complex time.”— Lewis Wallace, medium.com
“Reading source material is better than reading other people's opinions about the source material.”— Elon Musk, twitter.com
“There is no money. Companies are struggling and firing left and right. The companies that are doing well learned that hyperpartisan content shares better than real news.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“The truly professional journalist needs to be a lover of the truth, not just in theory, but in practice! In this way, the client, and society itself will be better served.”— Catherine Dean, su-plus.strathmore.edu
“Good faith with the reader is the foundation of good journalism. Every effort must be made to assure that the news content is accurate, free from bias and in context, and that all sides are presented fairly.”— American Society of News Editors, asne.org
“Journalists must avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety as well as any conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict. They should neither accept anything nor pursue any activity that might compromise or seem to compromise their integrity.”— American Society of News Editors, asne.org
“The primary purpose of gathering and distributing news and opinion is to serve the general welfare by informing the people and enabling them to make judgments on the issues of the time. Newsmen and women who abuse the power of their professional role for selfish motives or unworthy purposes are fait…”— American Society of News Editors, asne.org
“This is what scares establishment media types more than anything, not that people are spreading bullshit but that they are no longer in control of what bullshit gets spread.”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“Different outlets have been publishing sensationalist, less-than-true stories in order to sell copies since the dawn of print media. In the late-19th/early-20th century they called it yellow journalism, and after that there were tabloids, and after that attention-grabbing radio and TV stories design…”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“Why do good work when studies show that this is actually a deterrent to social sharing?”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“With millions of tidbits of information, videos and, honestly, a lot of trash, your responsibility is to put that information in perspective, to tell us what is relevant and what is not, and to be fiercely independent.Please, don’t be partisan. Don’t be a Democrat or a Republican. Just be a journali…”— Jorge Ramos, fusion.net
“I’m sorry to say but you are entering journalism and public relations in the middle of a storm. In our profession we are living the equivalent of climate change, with the fundamentals of the business melting like icebergs in the summer, being flooded by social media and looking outside the window wi…”— Jorge Ramos, fusion.net
“It doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do, your success, in this industry, is always going to be governed in large part by luck.”— Felix Salmon, fusion.net
“If you get a job by competing on price against 40-year-olds when you’re 22, then the turnabout, once you reach 40, is only fair play.”— Felix Salmon, fusion.net