Brianna Keilar Quotes

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

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

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I'm a lousy journalist.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

I started as a print reporter.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.

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

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.