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I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I used to be a print reporter.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

I'm fortunate to work for a company that supports investigative journalism with strong editors and lawyers. That's the benefit of working for a company that's been around for more than a century.

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.