I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
I don't think a reporter necessarily becomes an arm of law enforcement. I think a reporter is like any other citizen. If a citizen can do his or her duty as a witness, if they have information about a crime, or if they have information about a criminal group, I think that there's a duty on the part of the citizen.
I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.
It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'
You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.
