Lisa Guerrero Quotes

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

I used to be a journalist.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

I have broken a lot of stories.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

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

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.