It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

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

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

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

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

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.