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With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

One of the reasons it's important to make a new project is it always seems to improve the reputations of the previous one. Whatever you did before is better than what you've just done, apparently. But I've had to follow the first rule of journalism: Never read the comments.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.