#reporters

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

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#beginning #book #covered #each #events

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#consider #directly #duty #few #get

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them? ↗

— James Taylor

#how #i #know #like #me

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. ↗

— Bob Greene

#being #competition #constantly #know #late

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#government #interested #issues #just #more

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military. ↗

— Jim Walton

#during #embedded #established #guidelines #military

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#journalism #lawyers #reporters #love

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth. ↗

— Judd Rose

#critical time #know #many #need #people