Words matter. These are the best News Business Quotes from famous people such as Katy Tur, Pete Hamill, Emily Procter, Nicholas Kristof, Tucker Carlson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you’re not competitive, if you’re not out to make a mark, you shouldn’t be in the news business.
Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.
I’ve been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.
Okay, I’m not in the news business, and I’m not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it’d be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there’s evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
Some days the competition would beat me and I’d go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you’re working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he’s doing for their once sagging ratings.
I didn’t know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious – he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.
That’s a paradox I’ve noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
For anyone in the news business, just the name ‘Cronkite’ conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most ‘compelling’ or salacious.
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
The news business is simple, but it’s not easy to do well.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
When you’re in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
I’m 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I’m a journalist and proud of it.
I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They’re the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They’re taking most of the risks. They’re absorbing most of the casualties. And they’re the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.
