Lynn Coady Quotes

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

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

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought to bear on nonfiction, nor of outrage.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Great questions make great reporting.

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.