Radio Journalism Quotes

I have always loved radio as a medium.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

I started in radio.

When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

I've always sort of listened to news radio.

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

The good thing about radio is that it's the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It's something you can do as long as you want to do.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.