{"id":18,"date":"2005-10-07T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/10\/07\/an-uncanny-knack\/"},"modified":"2005-10-07T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T15:09:51","slug":"an-uncanny-knack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/10\/07\/an-uncanny-knack\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uncanny Knack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Amidon<\/i> \u2014 Remember Ryan Smith \u201903 \u2014 a tall, skinny drink of water who majored in poli-sci and wrote for The Bachelor<\/i>? The guy has an uncanny knack for landing in the right places at the right time. (And I’m sure hard work has a lot to do with it.)<\/span><\/p>\n

When he did a White House summer internship, he was one of the very few interns who got to work in the West Wing.<\/span><\/p>\n

When he said he wanted to go to journalism school, I thought, "no way." He got into Columbia and finished his master’s degree right on time.<\/span><\/p>\n

On election night 2004, he spent the evening as the youngest person in the control room of CBS’s news division watching the results come in.<\/span><\/p>\n

He wrote me Friday saying to tune in to 48 Hours<\/i>, the CBS news program that covers a single story for a full hour. Why? Saturday’s program, "Strange Truth: A Murder Mystery<\/a>," was pitched to producers by our very own Ryan Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officially, he’s in research and story development, which means "I do front-end work for stories\u2014I find and research stories; pitch them; travel to meet people involved; and convince them to come on television. It’s a great job, especially for someone my age who can still live out of a suitcase."<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith began with 48 Hours<\/i> in February; it’s taken the better part of six months to get his story on the air. Smith is pleased, though; he has three other stories in production.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Ryan Smith at: smithr@cbsnews.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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