13 Quotes by Ken Paulson

We're increasingly inclined to put our scoops on the Web before publication in the newspaper. Our guiding principle should be to serve our readers first, getting news and information out as quickly as possible. It's also true that some stories just work better in print, particularly enterprise and investigative work with multiple elements and greater depth and length. The key is to tailor the content to the platform.

our reporters publishing this story were kind of proud of the fact that they had identified '60 Minutes' source and gotten the documents from that source rather than the White House.

We posted that in the early evening. That generated extensive coverage in the media, most of which credited USA TODAY. We then gave our readers an extended interview and full details in the next day's paper.

we actually had reporters who had a pretty good sense of where the information came from with '60 Minutes.' It was a source that we knew and we had been talking to that we hoped would shed light on things for us.

We did a special report explaining our involvement in it, a chronology of our participation. We told the entire back-story that most people didn't know about, how the source got involved, what deals he cut with '60 Minutes.'

This year's honorees represent a new generation with passion, promise and a global perspective. We're pleased to be able to salute the good work and commitment of these outstanding students, all of whom are destined to make a difference.

USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.

USA TODAY is pleased to honor students who travel so many different paths to gain success at America's community colleges. Their impressive achievements reflect their talent and commitment, as well as the environment of opportunity on community college campuses.

at the same time this source is giving us the documents they have given to '60 Minutes,' the White House is releasing the same documents to the entire press corps.