There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.