“AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.” StoriesHouseWhiteCareersBreakBeatsPressesClintonContactWhite HouseStaffFamily Friends Author:Ron Fournier
“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.” FeelsShouldKindMeanPersonsStoriesTurnsAsksTalkingCarStudentsTypeBeatsStrangerJournalismWorriedJournalistRetiringTapeLoanEditsCapers Author:David
“Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.” WorldLittlesStoriesKidsWinningTeamInvolvedProveBeatsYeahSeriesMathUpliftingBeachCaliforniaLeagueJapanCongratulationsMath And ScienceWorld SeriesLittle LeagueHuntington Beach Author:Jay Leno
“All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.” HeartStoriesBeatsPlantSilentWaveStormShockFloodMaking LoveEarthquakesOrderlySapRoaringVolcanoesWildnessBouldersOutburstYosemiteGeysers Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions...” WorldYearsBookStoriesPathBeatsDecadesPrintFormatAssembling Author:Scott Bradfield
“Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.” DoeRealStoriesBigsSeemsAgeTodayStreetsCrimeBeatsSellingJournalismJournalistDevicesBeing RealLots Of MoneyMobileIphonePedestriansInvestigative Journalism Author:Megan Fox