I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

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

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.