At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.

Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'

I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.