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

- Jessica Savitch

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

- Jessica Savitch

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 at…

- Jessica Savitch

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

- Jessica Savitch

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

- Jessica Savitch

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

- Jessica Savitch

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

- Jessica Savitch

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

- Jessica Savitch

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

- Jessica Savitch