Investigative Storytelling Quotes

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

I was always a big fan of 'Quincy,' and I loved the idea of puzzle solving.

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.

I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.

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

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

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.

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.

The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

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.

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.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought to bear on nonfiction, nor of outrage.

There are many great outlets that we love and respect, but 'The North Star' really is going to be a hard news outlet with reporters and journalists, White House correspondents. I think we'll be hard news with some cultural commentary.

We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase - long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.