Brendan Keefe is the chief investigative reporter at NBC Atlanta. He's won more than 85 Emmys and 3 National Edward R. Murrows, among other prestigious journalism awards.

In the second half of our conversation, we talk about the time he went on the "Craigslist of guns" to buy a former police weapon for a story, the ethical questions that came up when he embedded with the U.S. Army in Iraq, and why working in New York City wasn't conducive to him doing his best work.