Also, incredible energy and patience to work on these stories over the long haul. Both had a great ability to see the big picture and then figure out how to illustrate it with examples. Bill Jones had an extraordinary writing ability and a talent for pulling massive amounts of information together in ways that made it interesting. I started out at the City News Bureau in Chicago and went to the Tribune at a time when they were forming their first task force. I was at the right place at the right time because they wanted a woman on the team.
Every story brings some new challenge.
Pam Zekman has won two Peabodys, ten local Emmys, and two duPont-Columbia awards at WBBM, and shared two Pulitzers for investigative work in print. The fifties and sixties were my formative years. Sandy Smith was a reporter on the Sun-Times who went after mob figures and others, and later was a reporter at Time . I was steeped in that style of reporting. Brian Ross is chief investigative correspondent for ABC News .