Grab Quote by Mary Pilon Download Open image “Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.” — Mary Pilon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grab Journalists Know Often Stories
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained. — Jim Acosta Copy Share Image
In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I get stories because people know that I will never lie or make things up or pay for information. I apply a journalistic standard… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts. — Parvathy Copy Share
Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses,… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape and logic can generally only emerge from a perspective of months or even years -- and that it would hence often be wiser to hear the story in chapters rather than snatched sentences. They are institutionally committed to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I'm an emotional eater. If something's worth celebrating, we're going to grab pizza. If it's going bad, girl, pass me the chocolate. Gotta keep… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
When I go down to the bodega and grab a BLT, I throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt. — Aquaria Copy Share Image
People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Every time I was in the thrift store, anything with a Polo pony on it, I would grab that. — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
