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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I used to be a journalist.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.