“CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.” WorldFirstsDangerousNewsAreasOrganizationTrainJournalistCnnDeploying Author:Jim C. Walton
“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.” FirstsKindPersonsEndsUseRaceRightsMovementRelationCivil RightsJournalistHidingElectricReportersForbiddenRace RelationsCoveringCivil Rights MovementFirst PersonFrightNashvillePronouns Author:Lawrence Wright
“In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.” FirstsLastsCitiesHalfDecadesJournalistPermissionBin LadenCompoundsOsama Bin LadenSecuredFebruary Author:Peter Bergen
“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.” FirstsMayTwoReasonUsePastMediaConcernOrganizationIndependencePressesJournalistOperationsDamageInherentCommitteesCredibilityCiaMisleadExaminingPast And PresentFree PressCovert Author:Frank Church
“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.” MenFirstsHas BeensWarYoungCareersNeededMy FamilyExcitingCuriosityCuriousJournalistYoung ManAffectedGlamorous Author:Sebastian Junger
“Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.” PeopleKnowsFirstsPressesLocalsJournalist Author:Ben Parr