Air Quote by Ed Schultz

I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him…

— Keith Olbermann

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when…

— Salman Rushdie

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

— Tom Stoppard

When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

— Tamron Hall

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

— Ed Bradley

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a…

— James L. Brooks

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

— Stephen A. Smith

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

— David Grann

I did my teen-age years in World War II. War news was a constant. We kept the radio on in our house to hear…

— Orson Bean

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I had to host a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the park. But that was before…

— Karen Kilgariff

In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood…

— Tom Brokaw