Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.

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

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.