The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
I used to be a journalist.
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.
Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
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.
It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.