Evan Hunter Quotes

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

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.

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

I'm a journalism junkie.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

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

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

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

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.