In November 2008, Rohde, a Pulitzer-winning reporter, was kidnapped by insurgents in Afghanistan while pursuing an interview with a Taliban commander.
For her last show, in 2004, her bosses chose to have her pursue an interview with Mary Kay Letourneau, the middle-school teacher who went to prison for seducing one of her students, rather than one with President Bush.
The goal was to find out if employers are less likely to pursue an interview if they find out that a candidate is a parent, said Shelley Correll, an associate professor of sociology at Cornell, who helped conduct the study.
Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Julian Assange after the deadline for bringing charges expired, but said they would continue to pursue an interview with the WikiLeaks founder over an outstanding rape allegation.
It was shortly before he'd been hired full time by the newspaper, when he was pursuing an interview with Miller, who was in Los Angeles at the time.
She then pursued an exclusive interview with Jennifer Wilbanks, the "runaway bride," and defended it as a "terrific story".
In 1994, federal investigators pursuing an internal investigation interviewed Ms. Schiro, who had lived for years with Mr. Scarpa, who died in prison in 1994.
But now, as the Secret Service pursues an inquiry involving interviews with hotel maids, the women involved and the roughly 200 agents and officers assigned to Mr. Obama's trip to Colombia, the investigators have pieced together a more nuanced story, complicating how the senior agency managers addressed the fates of their employees, according to two officials briefed on the findings.
Mr. Roberts, an editor at The New York Times, doggedly tracked down the elusive Mr. Greenglass in the early 1980's and pursued him for an interview, unsuccessfully, for 13 years.
The novelist Matt Thorne, author of a 500-page book that stands as the definitive work on Prince's oeuvre, tells a story of pursuing him for an interview, and being invited to attend a gig in New York.
