Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

Some of the most important stories don’t lend themselves to television treatment.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they’re not really watching news, that’s not our audience.

It’s gonna be short if it’s news; put it at the top. Style’s not an issue, just make it news.

If your audience is young, it’d be youth culture, if your audience is older, it’d be older people, if it were senior citizens, it’d be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

And you can’t really cover people critically that you’re friends with.

Television’s not going read stories to you.

Whomever you’re going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

Television’s very dependent on images. That’s not what news is.

If you ask questions that interest you, you’ll get answers that interest your audience.