I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
I'm a journalism junkie.
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.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
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.
I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.
Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.
I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.
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 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 think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
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.
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.
I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.
Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the best and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and weeks after the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, and we also see it in many other ways every day.
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.
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've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.
