I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

open hostility and defiance.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, it's true.