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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.

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

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.

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

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

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

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

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.

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.