From 1983 to 1993, he was a writer and an editor at Time Inc., for which he reported on national politics and, in the early 1990s, on the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. From 1994 to 2003, he was senior editorial producer at ABC News, where he worked on longform documentaries and co-authored two bestselling books with the late Peter Jennings: The Century and In Search of America.