The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.
There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.
The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.
And I really believe good journalism is good business.
