Ron claiborne illness anxiety

I remember very well the first story I ever reported that appeared on “World News Tonight.” It was early J uly 1986 and I had been a correspondent for exactly one week. I was assigned a story about drug testing in professional football.

I wrote my script and submitted it to The Rim, the show’s executive producer and senior producers who vet the stories the correspondents write.

To my shock, they kicked it back with changes. So, I re-wrote the story and handed it in again.

Ron claiborne illness anxiety disorder

One of the senior producers read it over as I stood alongside him, and then he proceeded to grill me about various aspects of the story. As I answered, he took out a pen and scribbled more changes on my script. I walked away, revised it again and brought it back again.

I had never undergone an editorial process anything remotely like this in my four previous years in local television in New York or five years as a newspaper and wire service reporter. I was both embarrassed