Quotes About Reporting

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

But with twenty-four hours of airtime to fill, the fact that the storm had not yet hit was news.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

We don't do body counts.

It is your job to interpret the dice rolls and give meaning and impact to their results, not just report sports scores.

After more than 30 years in the middle of it, we could tell you stories. The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it

Real-Time Agenda Once the lightning round and progress review are complete (usually no more than fifteen minutes into the meeting), now it is time to talk about the agenda. That's right. Counter to conventional wisdom about meetings, the agenda for a weekly tactical should not be set before the meeting, but only after the lightning round and regular reporting activities have taken place.

See, management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.

management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.

Don't ever accuse me of being objective.

though the journalists who have done so have paid a heavy price, being targeted by the cartels.

Travel had to do with movement and truth, with trying everything, offering yourself to experience and then reporting it.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.