"An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed."
- Elbert Hubbard
"News is the first rough draft of history."
- Benjamin Bradlee
"The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business."
- Frank Miller
"It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell."
- Wilbur F. Storey
"What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion."
- Lester Markel
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
- A. J. Liebling
"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you."
- John Gunther
"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."
- Arthur Miller
"Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene."
- Fred Friendley
"A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of ..."
- Cyril Connolly