#porter

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗

— Olivier Weber

#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#exposing #get #go #i #job

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. ↗

— Earl Browder

#change #coats #consequently #did #efforts

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#been #finds #good #investigative #journalism

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.' ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#contract #every #going #here #i

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#high #high school #i #literary #magazine

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#commercials #could #hell #i #news

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#credibility #important #integrity #reporter

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#assignment #began #best #cbs #cbs news

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#call #forth #i #people #phone