Reporter Quotes - page 7

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. (David Simon)
My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize. View quote
Deborah Norville
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase. View quote
Daryn Kagan
I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.' View quote
Elizabeth Vargas
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual. View quote
Eleanor Mondale
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. View quote
Graydon Carter
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter. View quote
Garrett Graff
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. View quote
Gene Hackman
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston. View quote
Howie Carr
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! (Jack Germond)
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science. View quote
Jack Germond
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. View quote
Jill Abramson
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person. View quote
Jill Abramson
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. View quote
Jim Lehrer
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City. View quote
John Tesh
It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. View quote
Joshua Lederberg
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. View quote
Judy Woodruff
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. View quote
Kevin Cramer
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post. (Kara Swisher)
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. View quote
Karen Traviss
Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. View quote
Louise Slaughter
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful. View quote
Larry Kramer
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was. View quote
Bruce Jackson