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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.