I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

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

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.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

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