Will Brown
Will Brown
night thinking made
There are times you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan...
anchors hustle logistics
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling
winning anchors feels
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred
writing thinking moments
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print
track tvs feels
In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train
moving book writing
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment
mean trying being-me
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean
running smart kind
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting
writing thinking people
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in
fun ideas perception
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions
crafts legends journalism
In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
monday past rocks
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
change
Hide from change and it will hide from you
girl interesting scary
What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.