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Quotes About Reporting

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
~ Stuart Scott
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
~ Ed Bradley
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
The secret of any kind of reporting is to go with a guide. So if you, you're going to see Hezbollah in Beirut, you go with someone who knows the local people, and you'll be fine.
~ David Ignatius
Past subjunctive forms are used when reporting: May/might as well can be translated using the verb poder. When the speaker expresses advice in a mild way (that is, the advice is not emphasized or insisted on), por las mismas can be added (usually preceding the verb poder):
~ Rogelio Vallecillos
Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates." What you pay attention to grows.
~ Roger Connors
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.
~ Ron Fournier
A absoluta isenção jornalística é uma fantasia. A imprensa não deve procurar ser imparcial. Deve buscar não ser injusta.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Stefan Collini comments that the "fallacy of accountability" is "the belief that the process of reporting on an activity in the approved form provides some guarantee that something worthwhile has been properly done" (What Are Universities For? 108). The
~ Maggie Berg
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Women who are attacked phone a hotline for advice. Don't report a rape, the women are told. Call it indecent exposure. A guy who takes it out and doesn't do anything with it--cops figure that guys is sick.
~ Amy Hempel
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
~ Amy Tan
Anderson Cooper
~ La Côte Basque
Intelligence converts desire into plans, systematic plans based on assembling facts, reporting events as they happen, keeping tab on them and analyzing them.
~ John Dewey
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
~ Jim Lehrer
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
~ James Fallows
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
~ James Salter
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
~ Charles Kuralt
It follows that in the reporting of strikes, the easiest way is to let the news be uncovered by the overt act, and to describe the event as the story of interference with the reader's life. This is where his attention is first aroused and his interest most easily enlisted.
~ Edward L. Bernays
There is no dispute between me and Richard Dawkins and there never has been, because he's a journalist, and journalists are people that report what the scientists have found and the arguments I've had have actually been with scientists doing research.
~ Edward O. Wilson
I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.
~ Edward R. Murrow
reporting components for "worthy" victims]: Fullness and reiteration of the details of the murder and the damage inflicted on the victim. Stress on indignation, shock, and demands for justice. The search for responsibility at the top.
~ Edward S. Herman
A real journalist only states, neither collaborates nor participates.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The majority of journalists and anchors have the information only, but not the sense of knowledge.
~ Ehsan Sehgal