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

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

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.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.