The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.
My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.
