Heather Brooke Quotes

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.