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

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

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

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

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

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.