NAME: Catherine Kim

AGE: 36

CITY OF RESIDENCE: New York City

COMPANY THAT YOU WORK FOR: CBS News, on “CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood”

JOB TITLE: Producer

TIME AT YOUR JOB: 5 years

Describe what you do.

As a producer for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” a 90-minute network news program that places a heavy emphasis on the arts and culture, I find, develop, research and report long-form stories on a wide variety of topics. In the past few years, I have reported on subjects that range from cover stories on the pharmaceutical industry, online dating and dirty bombs, to profiles on director Ang Lee, actor Will Ferrell and designer Manolo Blahnik, to feature pieces on skateboarding, color theory and DJing.

Do you consider your job a passion?

Yes. There would be no other way I could do it if I weren’t passionate about it. I work WAY too many hours, cancel WAY too many plans, miss too many gym classes! In many ways, as a journalist, you are always working … mulling over ideas, situations, leisure time, conversations, mining your life experiences for that next story.

What do you find most fulfilling about your work?

Kim in the offices of “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

I most enjoy meeting fascinating people, inspiring people, being challenged and intrigued by the dimensions of a story and putting something out there that in some small way contributes to an honest world.

What makes television news more exciting or enriching for you than other types of journalism?

I think all types of media have their own special attributes, but what I most appreciate about television — other than its reach — is the power of moving, talking pictures.

What story are you most proud of working on?

There are several stories of which I am proud, but perhaps the most unique story is one that the actress Glenn Close pitched to me about a woman named Maisie Devore. (How she got my name and number I will never know!?) Maisie was around 50 years old when she decided her little teeny town of Eskridge, Kansas, needed a town pool for all the kids who didn’t play ball — the only option in town. She told us she never met a kid who didn’t like to jump in a pool, and so set off on a mission. Scavenging local parks, digging through trash cans on Main Street and scanning roadside ditches, Maisie began her quest to turn aluminum cans into cash. As the weeks wore on, the months, the years, most everyone in town thought Maisie had lost it — calling her Crazy Maisie. But when we caught up with her, nearly 30 years later, Maisie’s dream was within reach — she had amassed a small fortune from her recycling: $90,000. And the town was getting its pool, breaking ground right across the street from her living room window.

Describe your path here. What other jobs have you held?