Tom Brokaw Quotes

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

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.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

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

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'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

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

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

I didn't like being in a newsroom all the time.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

I'm a journalism junkie.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

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!'

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.

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

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 because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

My dream was to do political journalism.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.