Lionel Barber Quotes

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

I started as a print reporter.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I'm doing real journalism.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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.