The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.