With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'
I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
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.