Abby Huntsman Quotes

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

News is the first rough draft of history.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

News is history shot on the wing.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

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

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

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.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

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

That's my role, I go get news.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I think that my main business is as a news person.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.