Steve Capus Quotes

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 this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

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

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

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 started as a print reporter.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.