“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.” WayBookFallGamesTermVirtueSubjectsMediaSourceDisciplineMessagesNewsTreatsAccessReportersDefault Author:Ron Suskind
“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.” PeopleThinkingWellsRealNamesDealsEnvironmentNewsExpectingTrapsReportersObscureConferencesAttendingBriefing Author:Tom Brokaw
“News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.” AmericaLeftNewsReporters Author:Walter Cronkite
“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.” ThinkingWorldHardStoriesLastsNightFoundAcceptingHappenedCenturyEventsNewsBiggerReportsPotDragReportersInabilityLast NightNeatCumulative Author:Terry Pratchett
“The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.” ArtNewsVictimJournalismReportersEmbryosLullsTricksters Author:Derek Tangye
“[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.” IfsActorsNewsGet UpReportersOscarsWherever You Are Author:Anna Magnani
“Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the globe.” RiskMysteryAdventureReadyFindingsNewsCornersNewspapersExcitementSomething NewGlobesReportersNewspaper Reporters Author:Stan Lee
“The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.” IfsWantHumansPovertyConditionsMediaInvolvedNewsMiseryHuman ConditionReportersNews Media Author:Barbara Walters
“I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.” WritingSkillsNewsReportersGood NewsGreat Writers Author:Walter Cronkite
“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.” FirstsWellsRememberLeftActingChangedTelevisionNewsFemaleLife ChangingReportersTelevision News Author:Lynne Reid Banks
“Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.” PleasureLibertyLaughingParticularNewsJournalistHypocrisyEditorsCommentDevotedReportersOutletsMockSatiricalFactual Author:Tom Rachman
“Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.” PeopleThinkingTryingWellsConflictNewsExtremesVersionsToneReportersShockedHostile Author:Gloria Steinem
“Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.” IfsEnoughPoliticalNextInterestingThousandNewsMinistersDozenReportersNext DayHeadlinesBloggersBriefingBingo Author:Daniel Hannan
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.” WritingStoriesAsksEventsProveNewsPaidCurrentsJournalismReportersRetrospectNews MediaCurrent Events Author:Anna Quindlen
“For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.” PeopleMindHeartLittlesHas BeensMadeStoriesRunningCryEmotionalTrustSafeNewsPagesAdultsLike MeDriversReportersTrust MeNotebookNeatSafe Places Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, 'If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!'” IfsMeanWaterDutyNewsStandingPlantTerroristPoisonTreatmentReportersStanding OutWipeNoonManualsHarps Author:Jay Leno
“Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.” FirstsTodaySceneNewsConcernedReportersExplainingEducator Author:Fred W. Friendly
“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.” UseRealityJusticeEnemyCasesGroupsNewsPercentTreatsMurderEverydayJournalismTargetReportersSpyTransmitImpunityStaggeringInsurgent Author:Mariane Pearl
“Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do.” KnowsCareTalkingAcceptingKnow HowStupidNewsStandingHotSillyHealth CareReportersProposal Author:Dave Barry
“Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.” IdeasScienceRoomsNewsGood ThingsGood IdeasReporters Author:Scott Adams
“I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The 'mot juste' unarriving? Tell that to your desk.” WritingYearsStoriesMiddleNewsSevenEastMiddle EastDesksReportersEquipmentBalkansEast Africa Author:Geraldine Brooks
“I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.” TryingHas BeensEndsNightGoalLinesOpinionWeekInvolvedNewsAvailableAnalysisReportersFridayCoveringFriday Night Author:Gwen Ifill
“The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.” ThinkingStoriesBigsRunningCitiesFivePaperNewsMurderTownsPhotographerUniversityNewspapersClockChicagoReportersPapersScandalJuicy Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.” FirstsTwoHouseNationsWhiteCitiesNew YorkNewsOrganizationCaughtBoxesTerrorismFlightVulnerabilityReportsPoundsWhite HouseNew York CityInvestigationContinuingFifteenSeptemberReportersFoxesTouringFlewBin LadenSeptember 11FourteenRazorsSprayOsama Bin LadenFox NewsPeppersUraniumCuttersDaily NewsPepper Spray Author:Dave Barry
“Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission.” WayRealActionDifferencesDecisionMediaMilitarySceneDegreesNewsMissionsIdeologyFourthBiasReportersEstatesColonelsNews Media Author:Dave Abrams
“My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.” FirstsFilmFatherRolesStrangeNewsReporters Author:Peter Jacobson
“I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.” YearsBigsNaturalNewsHappeningsRedCrossesSouthEntertainmentDisasterCaliforniaReportersHurricanesEarthquakesCarolinaMiamiAndrewRecoveringNatural DisasterSouth CarolinaCharlestonRed CrossCharleston South Carolina Author:Nancy O'Dell
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.” PayPiecesOffersNewsPercentAccountsOriginalsPostsCombinationPartnershipReportersBlogs Author:Arianna Huffington
“The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.” LongStoriesFormGoalFocusPiecesEconomicMediaProduceNewsIncludingVideoJournalismVarietyPostsRangeFundBroadsInvestigationStaffReportersAudioContractionsNews StoriesBreaking NewsInvestigative Journalism Author:Arianna Huffington
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington
“My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.” PersonsMadeWarEndsMomentsStoriesRealizingPowerfulTalkingWatchesWifeMinutesNewsShotsIraqMy WifeReportsFuneralReceivingReportersDocumentariesCiviliansIraq WarWailingReally PowerfulArresting Author:Charlie Brooker
“The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.” HelpingShowsTrumpNewsClaimsPaidBusyEngagedCyclesVirtuousReportersSupporterChasingCnnInsidiousSurrogates Author:David Folkenflik
“During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.” PresidentTrumpVictoryNewsStandingElectionMinistersPrimeReportersPrime MinisterBoastConferencesIsraeliAnti Semitic Author:Amy Goodman
“I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters in prison or worse. I've seen my colleagues risk their lives and, with increasing frequency, lose their lives in their pursuit of the truth. We are not about to stop doing our jobs because yet another president is unhappy with what he reads or hears or sees on TV news. There is a reason the founders put freedom of the press in the very first amendment to the Constitution.” TryingFirstsCountryReasonJobsPresidentLosesLeaderRiskTvsNewsConstitutionPressesPrisonCriticalComplainingPursuitUnhappyThrowingAmendmentsFoundersReportersColleaguesFrequencyFirst AmendmentFreedom Of The PressTv News Author:Jonathan Karl
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.” PoliticalHouseLeftWhiteBoysFourMediaEatingNewsMalesDecadesDustJournalismWhite HouseBusExposedOutsidersPacksReportersAlaskaInsidersGals Author:Michelle Malkin
“When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.” NeedsMistakeFrontsNewsPagesReporters Author:Willie Stargell