Vladimir Putin Quotes

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

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

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

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

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

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.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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

I started as a print reporter.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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'.