Garry Trudeau Quotes

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.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

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

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

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

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

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'm a failed newspaper man myself.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

I started as a print reporter.