Fiona Bruce Quotes

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.

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

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!'

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

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.

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've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

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

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.