Quotes About Journalism

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.

All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.

I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can.

I'm not a war reporter.

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

I'm just a reporter.

I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter.

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.

If I'm being interviewed by a reporter, I take my time to answer the question.

My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was basically their campaign reporter, so I would just jump around from race to race, candidate to candidate.

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'