I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.