To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in