News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Being a novelty had its advantages.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
