Rex Chapman Quotes

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

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.

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

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

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

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.