#reporter

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#out #reporter #seems #ticket #world

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#air #bureaus #cheaper #facing #great

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#give #i #make #predictions #reporter

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#evidence #fact #flaw #man #newspaper

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#got #i #idea #know #remember

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#answer #asked #fireman #going #grow

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#being #having #i #imagined #just

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#band #borrow #boy #card #father

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#her #humored #i #in the beginning #me