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The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.