Fishbowl 5: Ex-Enquirer Editor Details Time at Tabloid

Then and Now: At left, Ross when she worked for the Enquirer.

Shelley Ross remembers her days globetrotting as a freelancer and then editor for The National Enquirer with the glamour of a longtime Hollywood movie star. She was 22 when she began a four-year stint at the paper that initially paid her $300 a story to contribute to the supermarket tabloid. Decades later, that tabloid is up for a Pulitzer. I chatted with her by phone to ask what it was like to work for a paper not often trusted.