If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.