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• For 30 years I’ve been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don’t be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

  Lester Holt

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• I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at ‘In These Times’, and it’s in my blood.

  Chris Hayes

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• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  Gene Hackman

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• I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn’t reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  David Simon

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• I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the ‘Sun’s’ enterprise reporting team.

  David Simon

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• I’ve always thought of myself as a reporter.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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• Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.

  Serge Schmemann

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• The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

  Serge Schmemann

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• I’m not a reporter but the ‘New Yorker’ treats everyone like a reporter.

  David Sedaris

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• But I’m a humorist. I’m not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

  David Sedaris

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• No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

  Dee Dee Myers

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• Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn’t have happened.

  Bob Schieffer

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• Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

  George Orwell

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• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  Gay Talese

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• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter’s story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  Garrett Graff

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• I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

  Robert Scheer

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• A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone.

  Edward R. Murrow

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• When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don’t need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

  Willie Stargell

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• If a reporter doesn’t like the person he’s writing about, it shows up in his article.

  Willie Stargell

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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