Reporter Quotes · Page 5

“It was too late for the truth – and too soon.”

— Brynn Kelly

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who…

— Erik Larson

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

— Willie Stargell

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt…

— Carl Bernstein

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's…

— Samantha Ponder

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently…

— Gillian Flynn

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers.…

— Jim Bishop

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people…

— Joan Didion

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter…

— Suzanne Collins

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive,…

— Wadah Khanfar

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't…

— Jeff Gannon

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't…

— Jack Germond

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter…

— Tom Wolfe

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a…

— Helen Thomas

“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.”

— Fred Reed

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

— Michael Connelly

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

— Chris Hayes

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

I've always prided myself on embracing the concept that almost no-one is indispensible, certainly not a news reporter.

— Katty Kay

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

— Jill Abramson

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of…

— Joseph Lelyveld

“Her embrace is an unwelcome reminder the rumor mill is stronger than my reporting.”

— Christina Estes

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

— Sam Raimi

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

— Mark Cuban

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to…

— Walter Cronkite

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t…

— Brynn Kelly

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

— Dana Goodyear

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

— Claudia Kim

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was…

— Larry Kramer

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

— Derek Jeter

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

— David Rakoff

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand…

— Ray Metzker

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to…

— Elizabeth Meriwether