Black Quote by Mumia Abu-Jamal

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was…

— Alex Tizon

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons…

— Robert Caro

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to…

— Stephen A. Smith

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

— Joe Klein

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

— Daniel Lyons

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I…

— Andrea Mitchell

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the…

— Andrea Mitchell

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind…

— Sarah Lacy

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong,…

— Tom Rachman

I was in the business of marketing, and I have two Bachelor's Degrees in Political Journalism, and I wrote for the school newspaper at…

— Enzo Amore

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

— Ana Kasparian

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

— Dan Rather