would meet them they feel persecuted, hated or ignored by their own organization and there is a certain therapy element to dealing with them, and i m sure steve can talk about that. he has to deal with them day after day, sometimes for years. they are often not used to feeling like outcasts in their own organizations in the pressure on them can be really intense. some of them start to it imagine conspiracies and threats and it leads to a difficult, often a difficult situation up front. in addition many of these folks often are kind of affection is by nature, and in my experience some of them almost excessively follow the rules. then they are so disappointed when people around them don t treat the rules in the same fashion. so, it is the job of the reporter to determine how big of a deal their grievances are, because in some cases they might be petty and they may be right. someone may have violated a rule but it may not be that consequential so that is part of the process of
media group where he is now the executive. we have worked with him for many years. he did some very important breaking news items through nightly news of whistle-blowers and always did an extremely credible, effective and balanced job. it was good to know that there were producers who were interested in this story and in protecting the whistleblower and getting hard and controversial news out there. jim worked at several senior positions for nbc news over a 14 year period. he oversaw a team of correspondence that broke major stories for nbc news on politics, wall street scandals, intelligence scandals, law enforcement controversies. he was an on-air correspondent and his stories appeared on nbc today show, the weekend nightly news, cnbc, msnbc. he has won four national awards for outstanding journalism. he has won two edward murrow award and was a finalist for the national magazine award. the american journalism review profiled him as one of washington s most enterprising jou