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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

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

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.