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When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.