Kingman Brewster Jr. Quotes

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.