Reporting Quotes

“Strategy is really the essence of the boards value proposition to the company. The ability to strategize well is the essence of what makes a board relevant.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“A board-established and led vision is a critical element of effective corporate governance. It provides direction, inspires stakeholders, and guides the company towards a successful future.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“As a board, you want to be able to identify exactly what the company is succeeding at and exactly what it's failing at so that you can amplify the successes and correct the failures with surgical precision.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“I believe that companies, as major employers, resource managers, technological innovators, and capital allocators, have a unique responsibility to operate with integrity, transparency, and accountability.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“A successful blitz requires a well-thought-out strategy and flawless execution. Similarly, effective corporate governance involves developing and implementing sound strategies that align with the company's goals and values.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“I have always been fascinated by the intricate dance of power, strategy, and decision-making that unfolds within the boardroom. It is a microcosm of human interaction, where the fate of companies, communities, and sometimes even nations, is shaped.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Sometimes you do it to save face, thought Jerry, other times you just do it because you haven't done your job unless you've scared yourself to death. Other times again, you go in order to remind yourself that survival is a fluke. But mostly you go because the others go; for machismo; and because in order to belong you must share.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“In essence, a blitz play in football is a microcosm of corporate governance principles. It showcases the importance of coordination in mind body and spirit, clear roles, strategic planning, risk management, and performance evaluation – all critical elements in ensuring a company's success and sustainability.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“There were generally two kinds of stories: the ones you chased and the ones that chased you.”
― Frances Wren, Earthflown

“Informer'... means one who gives information. It means what 'journalist' ought to mean. The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he tells the truth. The common journalist will be ruined if he does.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Delacorte Review Stories do not write themselves, much as writers may modestly insist they do. Stories exist because writers need to tell them—a need so deep that they will endure false starts, woeful sentences, dead-end paragraphs, two-dimensional characters, flabby prose, wrong turns, and shaky narratives. In short, they will risk all the things that, taken together, comprise the writer’s greatest fear: failure. Specifically, failing to tell the story they need to tell. Still, they persist. If the best fiction is propelled by imagination, we believe that the best narrative nonfiction is propelled by the relentless and often-lonely business of finding out things that are often maddeningly difficult to find. In a word: reporting. Nonfiction storytelling can be as compelling, riveting, and transporting as fiction—so long as you come back, as they say, with the goods. The Delacorte Review’s mission is discovery -- for readers to discover new, original works of ambitious narrative nonfiction. For writers to discover the stories they need to tell.”
― The Delacorte Review

“The mainstream media were not reporting the number of missing people during the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“Not reporting the number of dead bodies that were known to law enforcement created confusion about the total number of hurricane Ian deaths.”
― Steven Magee

“By the second week of the Florida hurricane Ian disaster, it became clear the mainstream media were not reporting the full story that was circulating on social media.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you believe the number of dead the Florida government is reporting?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you remember the time when the Florida government was not reporting the number of bodies found and the number of people missing during the hurricane Ian disaster?”
― Steven Magee

“Many people noticed the absence of news reporting on the known numbers of dead bodies found and missing people reported in the hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida government not reporting the numbers of known dead bodies and missing people prompted me to research it.”
― Steven Magee

“The lack of accurate reporting by mainstream media regarding the Florida hurricane Ian numbers of dead bodies found and missing people may have ended the era of the masses obtaining their news from corporate news agencies.”
― Steven Magee

“After the Christmas 2022 airline disaster, people started reporting problems with getting compensated.”
― Steven Magee

“The best thing you can do with a police officer that is following you is place a 911 call reporting harassment and request a police supervisor to attend.”
― Steven Magee

“It is true that in the absence of information, people tend to assume the worse. But I believe that even in the presence of information, people still refuse to read.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Busz po polsku

“Reporting corrupt police departments to internal affairs is not how police corruption research works. It has to all be done online and in public view. Think George Floyd.”
― Steven Magee

“If a police officer refuses to give me their name and badge number that I am interacting with, I will obtain it through a 911 call reporting a suspected police officer impersonator.”
― Steven Magee

“For years, I assumed that educating people who are already interested in climate change would just be preaching to the choir. But my reporting career has taught me that's note true. Most people who are interested in climate change just don't yet have the tools to talk about it confidently. The choir is there. They want to sing. But they don't know the words. (Emily Atkin, Truth Be Told)”
― Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

“newspapers, without a purpose, devoted space nowadays to illiterate imbecilities that nobody would have glanced at twice, a generation ago”
― Alfred Noyes, The Sun Cure

“I called 911 reporting harassment. The responding police officer never showed up, I had to call 911 again and when the police officer showed up over an hour later, he harassed me too!”
― Steven Magee

“Despite intrigues and feuds, camaraderie on a newspaper was unlike anything else. Anyone’s success was a credit to all. Any victory over injustice, won by reportage or an editorial, justified pride in the whole team. A newspaper was a living organism, pulsating with affection, determined to accept only truth. Of course there was often a gap between the ideal and reality. There were compromises, deals, someone was always passing the buck; all that was normal. But your eyes—at least at the beginning—were on the heights, even if they were unattainable. Even if you had to begin the climb again everyday.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Forgotten

“Sometimes the story isn't the one you came to write but the one that finds you instead.”
― Cameron Crowe, The Uncool: A Memoir