“On the one hand, it undermines their profession further in the public eye. On the other, it further isolates them from their male counterparts, and underlines the suspicion that they’ve earned their positions illegitimately.”— Sophie Gilbert, theatlantic.com
“Journalists should not feel threatened when they're out in the field covering a story.”— Brian Stelter, twitter.com
“These are adults who seem to be so caught up in the moment they don’t consider the implication of who they support and whether they’re doing more harm than good.”— Scaachi Koul, buzzfeed.com
“To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodore-roosevelt.com
“The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“People are saying they don't trust politicians or journalists, but they will get in a car with a total stranger on Uber, or they'll rent their home on Airbnb. Trust used to flow upwards to experts and authority - now it's flowing sideways to strangers, peers, and neighbours.”— Rachel Botsman, twitter.com
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I got started by couch surfing and being broke, homeless, without healthcare.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“Fusion told me and many other staff to "side with the audience." Which they clarified as young people being liberal or left leaning so that's the angle we take regardless of the facts. It was not a fun time.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com