Journalistic Work Quotes

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.

In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

I've done a lot of investigative reporting, and I've confronted a lot of people over the years, sometimes in dark, foreign places. But to do it over and over again in such a short period of time, it's emotionally and physically draining.

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

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

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 meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.

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.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'