Brianna Wu Quotes

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I love journalism.

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

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

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?

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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 went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

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

Journalism is not writing.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I'm a lousy journalist.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

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

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.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.