Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.