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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.