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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.