Shaun King Quotes

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.

I'm thrilled to join the talented people at 'The Daily Line' and look forward to being a part of Versus' incredible team.

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

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

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

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.

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

I'd actually argue that the best thing to happen to the 'Washington Post' was hiring Marty Baron, maybe the greatest newspaper editor of his generation.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.