Reporting Quotes · Page 2

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

— Lawrence Wright

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

— Carl Bernstein

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

— James Hansen

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

— Fred Reed

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

— Allen Lacy

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

— Fatih Birol

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.

— Sarah Stillman

“Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you…

— Jimmy Breslin

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life…

— James Salter

The mobile solutions offered by companies such as Square, and now Amazon, may seem tempting for merchants due to the low cost,…

— Jared Isaacman

If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an…

— Jeff Gannon

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing -…

— Tom Wolfe

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least…

— Jim Walton

Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you…

— Tom Rachman

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic,…

— Andrea Mitchell

I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career,…

— Lowell Bergman

In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows…

— James Surowiecki

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the…

— Lionel Barber

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the…

— Soledad O'Brien

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they…

— Ira Glass

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Jerome Kagan, the Harvard psychologist, only hires people who are anxious, because he thinks they are better and more conscientious workers. I…

— Scott Stossel

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of…

— Michael Moss

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

— Barkha Dutt

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

— Guy Kawasaki

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

— Kristen Welker

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

— Bob Greene

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

— Jessica Savitch

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

— Charles Portis

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

— Kenneth Lay

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

— Chris Crutcher

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

— Richard Quest

“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.”

— Steven Magee

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

— Nicholas Kristof

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

— David Grann

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

— Jack Brickhouse

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

— John Pomfret

It's a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.

— Katy Tur

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

— Walter Lippmann