You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Anybody can be ambitious.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

Profit per se is not my motive.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.