Jeff Zucker Quotes

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.