Gwen Ifill Quotes

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

One of my roles, and one of the things I'm good at, is breaking news.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

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

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

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

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

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.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

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