Interviewing your boss can be a dicey proposition, and should under no circumstances be attempted unless that individual is interesting.
George R. Hearst III is worth the risk, and not only because he has served as publisher of the Times Union since 2009. Southern California-raised, he was working in San Francisco, with a wife and young daughter, in the late 1980s when he was offered the chance to take a deeper role in the media company that bears his family’s name.
The options on the table were Texas or the Northeast. “I went home and informed my wife of the choices given, and she said, ‘If you’re going to Texas, you’re going by yourself,’” he recalled.
