Investigative Reporting Quotes

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.

The Boston Globe's award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well-respected media companies in the country.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Investigative reporting is not a way to make friends.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

I'm a journalism junkie.

As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Journalism is not what it used to be. I thought it was an important job, but it is not. I'm idealistic, and it pretty much upsets me that negativity sells and that even if I wanted to tell the truth, I wouldn't be able to if my boss does not okay it.

If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

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.

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people's lives for the better.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.