The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.

I don't pretend I know everything.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.

The loss of credibility coincided with Americans’ growing lack of confidence in all of their institutions, according to polls that showed approval for almost everything, especially Congress, falling.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don’t think of myself as a tough person.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I’ll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

What’s next for me? I don’t know. So I’m in exactly the same boat as many of you.

The whole issue of how women’s management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

In one’s relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.