Daniel Lyons Quotes

I have broken a lot of stories.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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?

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

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

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.