Charles Kuralt Quotes

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

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.

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.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

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

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

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

As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

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.

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

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

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

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I started as a print reporter.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.