Michael Schoen Michael Schoen's career as a broadcast journalist includes covering some of the most exciting and even dangerous stories of our time. Schoen has covered government, the courts and politics, having anchored election coverage and worked political debates and conventions. He was born and raised and educated in New York City.
All news radio is normally something like a utility.
But when a major story is unfolding, no one can touch all news radio. There's nothing more compelling than what's known in radio as a talk around. A reporter in Tallahassee on a court move, a quick reaction at the Vice President's residence then a jump to Austin for the Governor's reaction. In that case there was plenty of direct reporting as I was able to feel and discuss each of hundreds of aftershocks. There have been many, but I was fortunate to be able to ride into Kuwait with the advance line of Saudi troops on what to the Kuwaitis was liberation day at the end of the Gulf war in 1991.