You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.