Tom Rachman Quotes

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

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

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

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!'

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I'm a journalism junkie.

If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.

I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

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.