Although Quote by Judith Martin

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

— Stephen A. Smith

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution -…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

— Jim Lehrer

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first…

— Zoey Tur

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

— Steve Kornacki

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement.…

— Bob Edwards

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

— Scott Pelley

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

— Janine di Giovanni

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to…

— Jane Pauley

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the…

— Dylan Moran