Jeff Gannon Quotes

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on '20/20.' That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.

Though I work in broadcasting and host a daily radio show, I got my start in print journalism.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.