For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Charles KuraltThe first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles KuraltI didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.
Charles Kuralt