Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
My investigative journalism is great; I know I get results.
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.
I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
Edward Snowden copied and leaked information from inside the world's most protected spy agency, and then fled to Russia, but yet, because a small part of the data he expropriated was provided to a news organisation, journalism conventions readily accord him lone whistleblower status.
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
