If you find out something you can do well, I don’t care if it’s whittling wood, or fixing a car, or writing a lead, if you find out you’re good at being a reporter, you just want that over and over again. You want that reinforcement, you want that feeling. I know what I’m doing. It feels good to know what you’re doing. A lot of people walking around don’t know what they’re doing, in anything. In any way. And this is something that is pretty easily measured. Did I win today?
former editor of the Corporate Report to David Carr, in his memoir The Night of the Gun