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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
"For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper."
"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."
"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
"At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people."
"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
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