I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.
When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.
I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.
I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.
Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
Sarah Palin is joining Fox News. The new slogan is 'hair and unbalanced.'
In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'
Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.
The BBC has a strict policy of having Clare Balding present everything.
What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
I studied journalism at Binghamton University, even interning for NBC's longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation, I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.
We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
