Reporter Quotes

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a 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.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

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.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

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

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.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

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

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

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

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.