Shaun King Quotes

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

I have broken a lot of stories.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

People don't realize there's a whole separate entrance to the White House for journalists.

I'm not doing Pulitzer Prize work where I'm unearthing major negative stories about the UFC or some big controversies. It's just kind of day-to-day fodder.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

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

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

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

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

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.