I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.
I'm a failed newspaper man myself.
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
I didn't like being in a newsroom all the time.
Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
