Leslie Cockburn Quotes

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

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

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

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.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

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

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!'

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

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

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.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

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

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