Hey, it's Josh Mankewitz, and today we have a special edition of Talking Dateline.

Instead of talking about a particular episode, we're going to share a discussion from the second

session of Dateline Live. That was our in-person event held in the fall at the Pinnacle in Nashville.

The entire Dateline team was on the interview hot seat,

listening to questions from our host, actress and avid Dateline viewer, Holly Robinson

Pete, and also from our friends, the proud Dateline superfans, the hosts of the award-winning

podcast, A Date With Dateline, Kimberly

Arnold and Katie Mitchell. They did not shy away from asking the hard-hitting questions.

We called the segment Dateline Confidential. Here's Holly Robinson-Pete to start us off.

Let's get this night started.

If you've ever wondered how a Dateline episode comes together, you're about to find out.

Like any good journalists, we're going to go straight to the source, and that would be our friend, anchor Lester Holt, of course.

And the best team of correspondence in the business.

Give it up for Josh Mekowitz, Keith Morrison,

Andrea Cunning, Lane Alexander, and Janice Murphy.

Woo-hoo!

So let's pull the curtain back a little bit on this.

Number one, how do you find your stories, Lester?

What is the origin of getting those stories and starting that process?

Well, from my standpoint, a lot of times it's in the doorway of my office.

A producer will come by and say, I heard about this story.

We start talking through how we could develop it and to really create, you know, the storylines

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