Doug has been a reporter since his year as editor-in-chief at the University of Delaware's student newspaper, The Review. He has worked as a reporter for The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Va., The Philadelphia Inquirer, The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., Forbes Magazine in New York and The Baltimore Sun, where he spent six years covering state and local government and politics. At The Sun he worked as an investigative reporter and his stories spurred the state criminal investigation into former Mayor Sheila Dixon.