Jessica Savitch Quotes (59 Quotes)


    By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

    A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

    Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.


    In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.


    Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

    Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

    It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.


    The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

    Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

    No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

    News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.


    Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

    The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

    I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

    The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

    My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

    I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

    When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

    One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

    My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

    When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

    How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

    It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

    News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

    Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

    I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.


    Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

    The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

    I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

    Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

    Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

    Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

    What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

    The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

    For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

    To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

    Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

    When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

    Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

    The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.



    Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

    Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

    You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

    News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.


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