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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.