At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
At CNN, we are only in the business of finding and reporting the news. As for the pressure to deliver ratings, our viewership is up.
CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.
CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.
I think embedding was useful in helping us cover the war. We were careful to not rely exclusively on embedded reporters.
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.
In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.
News and information of the future will be delivered to consumers in a targeted way.
Our Breaking News alerts go out to millions on their desktops, cell phones or PDAs.
Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
Our mandatory training continues and is in addition to the discreet use of security advisors and armored cars when circumstances warrant.
Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
We are committed to maintaining the world's respect while, at the same time, growing our business across our multiple platforms.
We are in the fortunate position of being able to share our substantial news-gathering costs among several different U.S. and international networks.
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.
We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
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