Investigative Research Quotes

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.