Newsroom Quotations

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

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.

What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different.

When we saw the rough cut in May, I turned around and said, 'George, you got this one right,' ... That's the first newsroom I've recognized on the big screen. That's the first one I could look at and say, 'I've been there,' and had that feeling and that tension, that palm sweating, camaraderie, repartee -- all of that.

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

I'm always happy when the viewers are happy, ... I obviously don't program for the people in the newsroom or my friends or the people I went to law school with. I program for the viewers.

I think most everyone in the newsroom has a great deal of respect for McClatchy and the papers it runs. Given the various scenarios, including the private equity firms that were involved in the bidding, McClatchy would be a newsroom favorite.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

Judy told the Times she ... intends to return to the newsroom 'hoping to cover the same thing I've always covered, the threat to country'.

We are continuing our coverage of tonight's big story: A computer worm that is spreading havoc in systems all over the world, ... Here is exactly what we know right now: Someone has unleashed a worm that cripples computers by forcing them to continuously shut down and restart. It's been a wild scene around our newsroom today because of that.

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Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

Texas has a lot of good newspapers and it's always gratifying to receive recognition from this group. I'm very proud of our winners, as well as all the other newsroom folks who work hard every day to put out our newspaper.

I've had 25 memorable years, really and truly, ... I'm really going to miss the newsroom - it's so lively and invigorating every day. I don't think there's any business like it.

It's really ridiculous. I'm just waiting for the first search of a newsroom to come down and for someone to say, 'You can't report we just searched you.

I needed other people in the newsroom for Kolchak to interact with, ... relationships that were going to drive these stories.

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

I don't think any of us saw the long shadow in the newsroom at all.