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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive. -- Sam Abell
Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest. -- Michael Ramirez
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. -- Tina Brown
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. -- Jon Oringer
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. -- Ted Rall
Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself. -- Michael Ramirez
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold -- Robert A. Heinlein
I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board. -- Joe Lhota
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' -- Mark Twain
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. -- E. B. White
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. -- Barack Obama
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. -- David Ogilvy
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. -- Pete Seeger
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle. -- Charles M. Blow
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. -- Ann Coulter
I think, from a standpoint of editorial, you know, AOL historically has played in a very deep way across many different verticals in the content space. Huffington Post adds a very large new dimension to that. -- Tim Armstrong
Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. -- Russell Baker
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That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. -- Daniel Okrent
One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day. -- Michael Wolf
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk. -- Deborah Moggach
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper. -- Jo Brand
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. -- Lincoln Child
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. -- Robert Mankoff
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. -- H. G. Bissinger
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. -- Amitabh Bachchan
When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. -- David Fincher
I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page. -- Al Franken
If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul. -- J. Michael Straczynski
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators. -- Malcolm Forbes
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. -- Walter Murch
Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website. -- Lauren Conrad
As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board. -- Joe Lhota
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt... -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. -- Bob Ehrlich
I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model. -- Janice Dickinson
Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years. -- Joni Mitchell
Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily. -- John Jakes
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. -- Ted Rall
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter. -- Gene Weingarten
If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point. -- Paul Conrad
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. -- Marshall McLuhan
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. -- Anna Chlumsky
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories. -- Janice Dickinson
For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances. -- George Kotsiopoulos
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. -- John Derbyshire
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. -- Tom Wolfe
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications. -- Ethan Zuckerman
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. -- Chris Cleave
I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot. -- William Monahan
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.' -- Randall Kennedy
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. -- Peter Chernin
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. -- Paul Conrad
The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk. -- Gene Weingarten
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. -- Abe Burrows
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. -- Bridget Hall
An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent. -- Gene Weingarten
It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach. -- Olivia Palermo
And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you. -- Maryann Brandon
The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. -- Lewis H. Lapham
When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities. -- Jim Webb
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. -- Michele Bachmann
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise. -- Michael Eisner
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. -- Jim Costa
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. -- Richard Donner
You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools. -- Lee Kuan Yew
An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle. -- Charles M. Blow
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read. -- David Ogilvy
For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning. -- Zoe Sugg
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions. -- Tim Hetherington
I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word. -- J. I. Packer
Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word. -- J. I. Packer
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. -- Roger Mudd
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence. -- Karl Rove
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence. -- H. L. Mencken
I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important. -- Michael Wolf
...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need. -- Jim C. Walton
[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there. -- Nat Hentoff
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. -- Roger Mudd
They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school. -- Joe Scarborough
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin. -- Karl Kraus
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam. -- Michael Ramirez
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. -- Joseph Pulitzer
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising. -- Barbara Kruger
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance? -- Susan Freinkel
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it. -- Carol Friedman
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly. -- Frank Crowninshield
You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short. -- Joe Buck
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for. -- Steve Jobs
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity. -- Michael Ondaatje
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. -- Paul Conrad
I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. -- Jarvis Cocker
I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. -- Craig Venter
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ? -- Christopher Hitchens
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! -- Robert Creeley
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. -- Scott McCloud
Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition. -- Donald Newhouse
Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search. -- Matt Cutts
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it. -- James Salter
I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer. -- Kitty Kelley
Used properly a hashtag can be really cool. Hashtags provide an opportunity for sly editorial comment, for parallel and perpendicular trains of thought, in the limited space that Twitter and, to some extent, Facebook provide. -- Bill Walsh
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway. -- Germaine Greer

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