Michael Ignatieff Quotes

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.

People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

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

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

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Though I work in broadcasting and host a daily radio show, I got my start in print journalism.

Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

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

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

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 always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.