If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.

You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.