Quotes by Katharine Viner - Page 1

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.
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Superstar
Carol
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Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.
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Aim
Earn
Journalists
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Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.
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Abuse
Earliest
Web
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The most important relationship the 'Guardian' has is with its readers.
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Relationship
Guardian
Readers
The Most Important
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Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.
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Difficult
Expensive
Journalism
Thoughtful
In-Depth
Producing
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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Friendship
Alan
Great Actor
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In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.
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Credible
Feed
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Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
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Distrust
Prejudice
Integrate
Peacefully
Refugees
Settle
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Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
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Age
Business
Digital
Digital Age
Feelings
Surveillance
Because
Business Model
Constantly
Model
Movements
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Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
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Adapting
Lonely
Refugee
Surroundings
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Sadly, we can't eliminate bigotry. But that doesn't mean we have to tolerate it, much less give it a platform on which to thrive.
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Thrive
Tolerate
Eliminate
Platform
Sadly
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I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.
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Significant
Thoughtful
Long Way Always
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The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.
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Detention
Movement
Displaced
Times
Global
Pressing
Whom
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People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
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Influence
Share
Experiences
Powers
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'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
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Guardian
Stylish
Thoughtful
Fiercely
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'Guardian Australia' will connect our Australian audience to our global community and give readers around the world a better understanding of this very significant nation.
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Australian
Guardian
Significant
Better Understanding
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When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.
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Begins
Resemble
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Nearly one year on from his election, Donald Trump disregards the constitution, offends allies, and attacks minorities, the powerless, and those who are holding him to account.
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Allies
Election
Minorities
Powerless
Trump
Account
Attacks
Nearly
Donald
Donald Trump
Holding
Offends
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Young people are at a higher risk of homelessness than adults and, when they find themselves in crisis, are too often overlooked by hard-pressed council homelessness departments.
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Council
Homelessness
Overlooked
Departments
People Young Find
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Making sense of a political moment when you're in the midst of it is difficult: even if you avoid commercial and personal conflicts, it can still be hard to see it and understand it.
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Midst
Conflicts
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At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.
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Alienation
Participate
Reversing
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The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.
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Australia
Detention
Files
Lifts
Officials
Secrecy
Seekers
Vivid
Asylum
Island
Guards
Hidden
Reporting
Surrounding
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If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.
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Alternatives
Hopeful
Nurture
Better World
Platform
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In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.
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Digital Age
Be True
Breaking
Emergency
False
Real Time
Shared
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The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and newspapers to something liquid and free-flowing, with limitless possibilities.
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Format
Limitless
Newspapers
Solid
Organise
Possibilities
Web
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For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.
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Knowledge
Dominant
Fixed
Form
Gutenberg
Information
Stable
Delivered
Encouraged
Page
Primarily
Readers
Settled
Truths
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At the 'Guardian,' we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it's about a shared sense of purpose and a commitment to understand and illuminate our times.
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Guardian
Illuminate
Shared
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The 'Guardian''s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.
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Independence
Interference
Ownership
Editorial
Receive
Reinvest
Safeguards
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Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
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Clarity
Account
Holding
Journalists
Societies
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We have thought carefully about how our use of typography, colour, and images can support and enhance 'Guardian' journalism. We have introduced a font called Guardian Headline that is simple, confident, and impactful.
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Colour
Guardian
Journalism
Confident
Carefully
Enhance
Headline
Images
Introduced
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Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.
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Digital
Perception
Fundamental
Journalists
Putting
Readers
Status
Web
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After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.
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Decades
Guardian
Account
Exists
Holding
Instinctively
Journalists
Liberal
Readers
Upholding
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The 'Guardian' supports the vital work that volunteers and campaigners do to mitigate homelessness and destitution; we will also continue to report on the causes of homelessness and destitution and urge policy change that will solve it.
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Causes
Guardian
Homelessness
Report
Mitigate
Supports
Urge
Vital
Volunteers
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As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
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Affront
Freedom Of Speech
Guardian
Silence
Appears
Counts
Editor
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A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed - an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.
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Collaboration
Contrast
Limitless
Ongoing
Relentless
Evolving
Improved
Newspaper
Updated
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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.
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Analysis
Digital
Enormous
Guardian
Independent
Innovation
Outstanding
Privilege
Responsibility
Journalists
Leading
Observer
Reporting
Revered
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The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people's lives for the better.
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Amber
Demonstrating
Resignation
Scandal
Secretary
Account
Investigative
Marks
Unequivocally
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Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil.
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Destroying
Islamic
Liberation
Women Religion Culture
Encompass
Societies
Oppress
Retain
Veil
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As editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', my job is to ensure that our independent journalism continues to be enjoyed by as many readers as possible and that our print newspapers make a positive financial contribution to securing a sustainable future.
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Contribution
Guardian
Newspapers
Print
Sustainable
Ensure
Observer
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For some time, destitution has been a harsh reality for asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees who are unable to access mainstream accommodation and support. Delays in the asylum and appeals process can leave them in limbo for years without money, shelter, and advice.
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Appeals
Harsh
Harsh Reality
Limbo
Seekers
Shelter
Delays
Accommodation
Asylum
Refugees
Unable
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For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.
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Abuse
Breakdown
Little Help
Trapped
Anywhere
Chain
Escape
Misfortune
Perhaps
Young People
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The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
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Abandon
Assistance
Crisis
Desperate
Humanity
Moral
Refugee
Retreat
Sanctuary
Solutions
Behind
Political World People
Close
Complex
Hearts
Ignore
Imperative
Pressing
Provide
Walls
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During the Second Boer War, from 1899 to 1902, Britain was rampantly jingoistic: anyone who opposed the war was cast as a traitor. The 'Guardian' stood against it and ran a campaign for peace while the brilliant 'Guardian' reporter Emily Hobhouse exposed the concentration camps for the Boers run by the British.
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Brilliant
Camps
Concentration
Emily
Exposed
Guardian
Ran
Traitor
War Peace Who
Reporter
Stood
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Facebook has become the richest and most powerful publisher in history by replacing editors with algorithms - shattering the public square into millions of personalised news feeds, shifting entire societies away from the open terrain of genuine debate and argument while they make billions from our valued attention.
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Billions
Debate
Editors
Genuine
Most Powerful
Shattering
Shifting
Terrain
Feeds
Valued
Societies
Publisher
Replacing
Richest
Square
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