Report Quotes

“It is part of a reporter's job to be a nuisance.”

“In a difficult story, you get the best information from sources at the lowest echelons of an organization, not from the top.”

“The sources are the lifeblood of what we do.”

“It's about getting the facts right, and it's about context.”

“The story is the search for the best obtainable version of the truth.”

“If you don't have sources, you don't have a story.”

“Good sources are the lifeblood of a reporter.”

“I don't do heroes and I don't do victims. That reduces people to stock characters.”

“To be a good reporter, you have to be a good listener.”

“The great thing about being a foreign correspondent is that you are in a situation, on a good day, where you are writing the first draft of history.”

“We did not want to muckrake, we wanted to see.”

“I've seen the best and the worst of humanity, sometimes on the same day.”

“I want to be the person who is the first to get the story and the first to tell it.”

“The best obtainable version of the truth.”

“Journalism is not stenography.”

“Good reporting is the best of what we have to offer society.”

“I'm a reporter; you can't be a specialist. You have to be a generalist.”

“The story is still developing, and we will bring you new information as it becomes available.”

“We have to be very careful that we are not putting our own spin on it.”

“I think the most important quality of a new journalist is curiosity.”