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What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

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

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

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.

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

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.