{"quotes":[{"text":"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["autobiographical","charles-bukowski","inspirational","journalist","life","poem","poet","poetry","poetry-life","poetry","posthumous-modern-writer","reflection","satirical","writer"],"id":61987,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","false-news","hungry","information","informative","journalist","misinformation","misinformed","news","newspaper","quote","swallow"],"id":105840,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such (dentist-patient, lawyer-client, teacher-student), the writer-subject relationship seems to depend for its life on a kind of fuzziness and murkiness, if not utter covertness, of purpose. If everybody put his cards on the table, the game would be over. The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.","author":"Janet Malcolm","tags":["journalism","journalist","reporter","reporting"],"id":112528,"author_id":"Janet+Malcolm"},{"text":"They were going to the house of a man who was shot dead. What was with all the exuberance? But maybe that was the only way you could move forward after mindlessly recording stories of brutality and violence for days on end? Maybe detachment was the only way. But if you could not be passionate about your job, what was the point in doing it?","author":"Shweta Ganesh Kumar","tags":["broadcast","journalism","journalist","media","news-channels","tv-reporter"],"id":122149,"author_id":"Shweta+Ganesh+Kumar"},{"text":"Then someone cried out, “Suicide bomber!” The crowd panicked. In the ensuing stampede, terrified pilgrims ran in both directions, many colliding in the middle of the bridge. A side railing collapsed under their weight, and scores leaped into the water whether they could swim or not. Hundreds were trampled to death. More than a thousand died. Hundreds of pairs of sandals were scattered around the bridge, left behind when pilgrims made their desperate dives into the river. I was given all of seventy-five seconds to tell the story on the Nightly News.","author":"Richard Engel","tags":["iraq","journalism","journalist","war-correspondent"],"id":140548,"author_id":"Richard+Engel"},{"text":"It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.","author":"Peter Arnett","tags":["journalism","journalist","news","newspaper","photographer","reporter"],"id":150862,"author_id":"Peter+Arnett"},{"text":"Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.","author":"Chris Cleave","tags":["humanity","investigative-journalism","journalism","journalist","whistleblowing"],"id":177795,"author_id":"Chris+Cleave"},{"text":"I'm Freelance Journalist that covers political stories from around the world. I've been featured in CTV News and BBC.","author":"Steve Bunday","tags":["anchor","journalist","news","writer"],"id":183068,"author_id":"Steve+Bunday"},{"text":"The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories in the days before the Internet. Before it was fashionable to learn Mass Communication. A long time before being a TV reporter and calling up your family to see your face beamed to their homes was an in thing. They were those who had left their families behind as they pursued the truth, opting to go to jail when the government hounded them to reveal their sources. Men and women that would rather quit than write editorials the management wanted them to write. Journalists who never wrote a word they would have to disown. Journalists who took their last breath as they wrote an article was true to what they believed in. They would never sit down and take stock of the stories they had covered and written saying, “So what if twenty of these are non-stories, I at least had five I believed in.","author":"Shweta Ganesh Kumar","tags":["ethics","journalism","journalist","media","news-channels"],"id":191065,"author_id":"Shweta+Ganesh+Kumar"},{"text":"Oh, I’m Chrissy Mackenzie, I’m from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism,” the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. “You got any advice?”“Search me,” Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. “I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it’s in favor of all that “go green” hippie crap.” “Oh, well….” Chrissy seemed taken aback, offended, and Mandy sighed a fourth time. “Damn it, I’m really sorry,” she apologized, smiling dismally at the aspiring writer. “It’s just been a really lousy day for me and I wasn’t really thinking. My advice? Find your own cause to represent, not one thrown out into society by a ton of environmentalist dopes. Find something new, something you think could be improved, and work from there.” Chrissy smiled with a look of total ecstasy as if the words of some nobody woman were important. Mandy momentarily noticed the groups of laughing, drunk, giggling people, all acting childish… and for a moment she wished she could be them.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["aspire","cape-breton","change","drea","drunk","environmntal","friend","gol","hippie","hope","ice-cube","improve","journalist","joy","nova-scotia","peace","pollution","sad","vancouver","world"],"id":204404,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}