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Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.