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What do you do?
Not much really. Pick up articles in the local press and redo them for the service. Sometimes there's actual reporting involved, but a lot of times it's just calling people up and asking them to repeat what they said to the BBC/Telegraph/whatever.

How did you get your job?
I sent them an e-mail and then had an interview with the London bureau chief.

Best professional lesson learned at the J-School?
Take good notes. Be a professional and actually stay in touch with sources after you're done with a story. Never hesitate to call someone no matter how late it is.

What are you working on currently?
A story about how all British cars are supposedly going to be equipped with electronic tracking devices by 2007.

What do you consider to be your greatest professional achievement?
Weekend reporter for the Columbia Daily Tribune back in 1994 (wow, doesn't time fly?)

What did you want to be as a kid?
I wanted to be a writer as a kid, and looking back, I wish I'd learned to speak a foreign language fluently. I want to move to Paris next year, and even though I speak a little French, it's just not good enough yet. London is a great city but as far as moving abroad is concerned, it's about as exotic as moving to Toronto.