Allan Sloan Quotes

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

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

I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.

Great questions make great reporting.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.