Officially, I've been banned as a reporter from speaking to or interviewing one former governor and one former Big Ten football coach. Why? Because I asked a lot of questions they didn't want to answer.
Since those days, I've learned a lot more about myself and better ways to get the story to benefit audiences – without getting kicked out of news conferences. One situation was resolved easily – sports reporting was boring so I was OK with my lifetime ban.
Countless murder scenes, numerous city, county and state agency meetings, news conferences, political campaign reporting, civil and criminal trials, drug investigations, live shots from a florist on Valentine's Day (ugh), locker room interviews with naked NFL players, and reporting from inside a military base on 9/11. Reporting gave me perspective. Perspective and an appreciation for both sides or multiple sides of every story I worked on; except for the live shot at a florist.
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