Tamron Hall Quotes

I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.

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've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

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

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.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

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

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

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.

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

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.