Positive stories? It's news to her

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Why did you think that there was an appetite for this type of story?

I think in the traditional media there's kind of a sense that if it bleeds, it leads, and that's all that people want to see and experience. I'm not bashing news

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Do you find that there were challenges in doing stories like this at CNN?

I think the mission is just different for a place like CNN. I'm not out to change anybody else's mission. I'm just glad that I found mine.

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Where did you first get this idea?

These were always the type of stories that made my heart sing, and I think different versions of it were in the back of my head. And then in January, CNN came to me and told me that after 12 years, they were not going to renew my contract. I never asked why. I just took it as a sign that, you know what, that thing that's been sticking in the back of your head, it's time to go do that.

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After being there for so long, were you sad to leave?

I had my sad for a few months. But there comes a time when it's time to put the sad away and get going.

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What kind of stories do you look for?

It's important to point out that it's not just happy news. I look at it as hopeful news. Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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Why do you think this idea has drawn some mockery?

I think, not to knock the mainstream media, but there is a sense of, you know, "How we do it is the only way to do it," and that's just wrong.

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Someone had registered your domain name already. How did you get it back?