Kate Adie Quotes

I started as a print reporter.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I'm just a reporter.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

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.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

The reporting has always been what drives me.

Journalism is not writing.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

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

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I have broken a lot of stories.

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

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I used to be a print reporter.

Profiles aren't journalism.

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

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

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.