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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.

I used to be a journalist.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

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 used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.