(187 quotes found)
“[On sensitive stories, Whitaker said, journalists often have to rely on whether officials] deny them or how vehemently they deny them. ... troubling if that's the standard they used.”
Scott McClellan
“Labour-leaning journalists suffered in the 1950s and 1960s for upholding the right to freedom of expression during colonial times and the Church's interdiction of Labour supporters.”
Joseph Muscat
“Anonymity is a coward's byline.”
Bobby W. Miller
“And I realized, oh my God. This is what I've been doing for 20 years. It's what all journalists do. We travel across the world with our notepads in our hands, and we wait for the gems. And the gems are always the outermost aspects of our interviewee's personality. And we stitch them together like medieval monks. And we leave the normal stuff on the floor.”
Jon Ronson
“A serious Whistleblower Act was needed and the dangerous mentality to hunt people who uncovered abuses had to be changed.”
“Journalists, could only be credible if they were ethical. Ethics implied responsibilities but also gave one rights”