Martha MacCallum Quotes

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.

I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

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

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

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.

I started as a print reporter.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

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

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

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

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

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

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

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.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

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

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

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

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.