Reporter Quotes · Page 2

“I'm the official unofficial reporter.”

— I.B. Nosey

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

— Reince Priebus

I was a dogged reporter.

— Joanna Coles

First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

— Maria Bartiromo

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If I'm being interviewed by a reporter, I take my time to answer the question.

— Bobby Wagner

I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.

— Walt Mossberg

Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

— Amy Chozick

I think of myself as a reporter. I just rhyme my reports and give them a beat.

— Badshah

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

— Carole Radziwill

Before I was a reporter, I worked at a record store in New Jersey.

— Susannah Cahalan

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

— Carl Bernstein

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

— Willie Stargell

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

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

— Mark Cuban

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

— Sam Raimi

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

— Christina Estes

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

— Joseph Lelyveld

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

— H. L. Mencken

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated…

— Michael Sandel

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

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

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

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other…

— Bill Keller

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people…

— Karen Traviss

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about…

— Neil Warnock

“The legal reporter came out of his cubicle shouting that two bodies of unidentified girls were in the city morgue. Frightened, I…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports…

— Michele Tafoya

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the…

— Bob Schieffer

“Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy, telling a reporter to get his…

— Carl Bernstein

In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One…

— Kevin Barry

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's…

— Jacob Weisberg

Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners…

— Barbara Johnson

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and…

— Nolan North

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

“The dead don’t give up anything, but the living do.”

— Leslie Meier

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

— Russel Honore

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

— Russel Honore

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

— Jackie Kennedy