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.

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

Hide from change and it will hide from you

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

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

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