Bill Kovach Quotes

• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

  Bill Kovach

  Believe, Responsibility, Self

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• The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

  Bill Kovach

  Organization, Views, Doubt

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• If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

  Bill Kovach

  World, Demand, Way

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• The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

  Bill Kovach

  Editors, Arguing, Desks

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