Katy Tur Quotes

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

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.

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.

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

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!'

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

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.

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.'

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture - for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

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.

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.'

At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.

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.