Expected Quote by Jim Bishop

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day…

— Gay Talese

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

— Mark Twain

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so…

— Osborn Elliott

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.”

— Joe Sacco

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

— Ben Bradlee

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter.

— Michael Wolff

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

“Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing about the…

— Al Franken

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to…

— Robert Scheer