Passion without focus can lead you astray.

There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.