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

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.