His unfortunate news addiction can be traced back to 1991, when he started working as a radio and newspaper reporter in Telluride, Colo. Switching to TV in 1994, he spent a decade as an on-air TV reporter in North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. Finally kicking the reporting habit in 2004, he escaped back to school in downtown Baltimore, and is now entering his second year at Maryland Law. He is contemplating a career in First Amendment and/or copyright law, and since NPR's General Counsel's office deals with both, it seems like a good place for him to be.