Diane Sawyer

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Irredeemable Optimism

Q: What kind of stories make you think, “This is why I love being a journalist”?

A: “I feel that way every day. Is that obnoxious? I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. I’m sure it sounds irredeemably optimistic, but it’s true.”

—Diane Sawyer, veteran journalist and ABC World News anchor,
in TIME interview, April 26, 2010 URL

Editor’s Note: A lot of accountants can say the same.

Hope for the Future: Katie Thisdell, the new editor of the student newspaper at James Madison U, faces down police with search warrants over photos of a riot to help them prosecute miscreants. “Hell, no,” the 20-year-old junior said (or words to that effect). URL

Photo: Katie Thisdell, editor of The Breeze, James Madison University's student newspaper, holds the Springfest riot edition in her newsroom. Jeanna Duerscherl/The Roanoke Times




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