I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.
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I used to be a print reporter.
I used to be a journalist.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
My father was a journalist.