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These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. -- Edward Bennett Williams
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. -- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. -- Jackie Kennedy
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. -- Jennifer Weiner
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. -- Joshua Lederberg
I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter. -- Ken Follett
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
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days. -- Bob Schieffer
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. -- Russell Baker
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan. -- Geraldine Brooks
L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters. -- Dylan Walsh
I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. -- Janine di Giovanni
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter. -- H. G. Bissinger
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter. -- H. G. Bissinger
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. -- Jeffery Deaver
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. -- Jill Davis
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! -- Jack Germond
There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate. -- Ben Bradlee
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along. -- Charles Kuralt
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. -- Thomas Carlyle
With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms. -- Alex Berenson
All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is vital to the success and growth of newspapers. -- Lionel Barber
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter. -- Joe Paterno
Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the globe. -- Stan Lee
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. -- Tom Stoppard
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things. -- Charlie LeDuff
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. -- Lewis H. Lapham
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors. -- Anton Chekhov
I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways. -- Scott Glenn
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. -- Ben Bradlee

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