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curious thing happens
when you become a jour-
nalist. Suddenly, you have
to be something of an expert on
everything.

When I started out, first part-time
with the New Orleans Times
Picayune, then full time with the.
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, I
couldn't oelieve the stories I was
assigned. I didn't know anything
about this stuff.

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My greatest turmoil was budget
stories. To this day I cannot balance
my checkbook, and there I was
supposed to be writing how and
why the Kansas City Jewish Federa-
tion decided to allocate so many
hundreds of thousands to one
agency, hundreds of thousands to
another. I was supposed to be
explaining this to readers? Right.
I always found the best approach
was to research my subject before I
did an interview. Still, it was a con-
stant challenge — writing one after-
noon about brain tumors, then find-
ing myself the very next day consid-
ering the future of Israeli-Egyptian
relations.

Asking the right questions is key to
any good story, and you have to
genuinely be interested in many
subjects. If you're not curious, don't

become a journalist. You have to

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