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But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.