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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.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

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

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

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

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.