Concerned Quote by Fred W. Friendly

“I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know.…

— Judy Polumbaum

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the…

— Warren Buffett

I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story…

— Terry Pratchett

“Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN…

— Tucker Elliot

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do…

— Martha MacCallum

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

— Mike Wallace

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

— Anna Quindlen

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

— Jim Acosta

What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists…

— Adam Braver

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

— Andy Grove