Sarah Konoski

How quickly are you able now to kind of spot if this is a story that might have legs for you?

Look, the tips are often very good.

And so when you do get a tip that you think is worth following and you want to sniff into it a bit further, where do you start?

What's usually your approach?

So there's all those financial pieces that might go into story.

What about the police?

What's your relationship with the police when you're following a story?

You must have built good relationships with individual officers over your decades doing this kind of work.

And it's not just paper trail investigating that you do.

You're also out on the streets, on stakeouts.

How do you prepare for one of those?

Like, do you have a go-to costume, Kate?

And as you're putting a story together, when you've got all of these different parts, what's your method for keeping all those details together in your mind?

I mean, you might be tracking things over decades, lots of different people.

Do you have a cork board?

What's it look like?

And after all that hard work that might be months, even years in the sort of reporting that you do, what's your state of mind the night before a story is published?

Sick.

Did your parents read newspapers when you were a kid growing up?

What do you remember about that?