‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’

‘But some of what ails American political journalism in our time is an overreaction to the failures of the boys back in Witcover’s heyday.’

Only when Solidarity won did the journalists realize ‘… they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.’

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it.

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’

‘I often reflect on my work as a journalist and wonder if I’ve some inherent genetic code that comes from this time-honored practice.’

‘Great reporting in Washington is about cutting through the bureaucratic maze.’

Some reporters didn’t understand the implications of tribal sovereignty when they went to the Red Lake Indian Reservation to report this story.

‘… access would be easier to achieve if reporters had been there to cover some of the more routine stories that had taken place on the reservation.’