Emily Chang Quotes

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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'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.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

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

A great listener - that was my talent!

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Great questions make great reporting.

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.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.