We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.