Quality Reporting Quotes

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

Great questions make great reporting.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

Never in history have so many people consumed so much news. This is a boon for democracy. Although reporting is often an irritant to those in power, high-quality news and analysis is essential to any political system that depends on giving citizens the facts so they can draw their own conclusions. The problem is that today’s internet distribution systems distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.