ABC7 Reporter Shares 'Stalker' Career Secrets

Here’s yet another confirmation from community newspaper The Acorn that if someone knows from an early age exactly what they want to do when they grow up—and focuses intently on that goal—it can all happen like clockwork.

In 2005, Elex Michaelson (pictured) graduated from Agoura High School and moved on to USC, where he was eventually able to get into Annenberg journalism school. As the ABC7 reporter recently told students at his old high school, he quickly learned first-hand the value of pounding the pavement:

Though a classmate’s father, Josh Kaplan, was the executive producer of KTTV’s Good Day LA, Michaelson was surprised to discover he was not a shoe-in for an internship position on the show.

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