Passion without focus can lead you astray.

Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he’s perfectly happy with one he’s written before. So...

What did this do to CBS brand credibility? Credibility is really your brand.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

I’ve never tried to be uber-sexy, … I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I’ve finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. … I grew my hair out...

I know that will never happen again. He [Shawn] believed that we worked for the readers, not the shareholders.

Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking,...

He’s an interesting character,

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism … that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

that prominent people sometimes lie.

An important reason Google is usually listed among the world’s most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,

Games online and computer games are becoming a huge, huge business, with young males aging 18 to 35.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can’t afford other diversions.

Journalists prize independence – not teamwork,

This is one of the most gifted interviewers that television or print has ever had, … Three Blind Mice.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible....

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it’s as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

The public, according to polls, is more prone to accepting the idea of ground troops and of prosecuting this war effort against (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic … because of the images you have on television.

Now NBC News devotes entire hours to ‘exclusive’ interviews with the Runaway Bride. CBS’ ’48 Hours,’ which once took us inside the emergency room of a hospital,

We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that they will not be able to build a valuable journalistic brand without good journalism, which...

Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.

Historically, viewers tire of people they have seen on TV for a long period of time.

Be prepared to be fired.

He aired documentaries on weighty subjects at a time when CBS, NBC and ABC had largely abandoned them, … kept his team in Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, even though all the...

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

This is a guy who has an amazing track record over a long period of time. He’s not a one-shot wonder. If you can get Jobs on your team, and then make sure he has...

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

Let’s concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers – international news, weather, sports, business, gossip,...

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

In the end, you have to listen to your customers. Isn’t a good business supposed to understand its customers?

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

We work for the readers – not the shareholders. My friend Peter Jennings, who died last month, and Ted Koppel, your 2000 Red Smith lecturer, served their audience – not their corporate parent. They work...