Emily Chang Quotes

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

I started as a print reporter.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

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

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

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I used to be a journalist.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I have broken a lot of stories.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

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.

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'