Journalism Career Quotes

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

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.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

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

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

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

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.

Growing up, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. I wanted to be Oprah.

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

I was working in the same building as U.S. News & World Report, and I banged on the door and said, "I'm ready to go." And they said, "What's your combat experience?" I said, "Does my parents' divorce count? It was pretty rough." Then they said, "What's your reporting experience?" And I said, "I covered the women's volleyball team in college exceptionally well." The guy was like, "You are so not ready to be a war correspondent."