Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.

At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble.

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even...

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing...

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There...

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a...

For a journalist working in Gaza or the Occupied Territories, a PRESS badge offers limited protection at best. For a Palestinian journalist, it clearly offers none at all.

I've written on football at the Guardian, American football, obviously. I've also written on weather at The Guardian.

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the...

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about...

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a...

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles...

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skillful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which...

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

Education was central to reporting.

I can't say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I've never been able to pull one off without it.

most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.

attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results,...

If he {John Adams} could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.