Quotes About Journalism

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I started as a print reporter.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

I used to be a print reporter.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.