Jimmy Breslin Quotes

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

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

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

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.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on '20/20.' That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.

I love journalism.

Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

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.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

Journalism is not writing.

I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

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

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.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?