From Toby Keith To Tech N9ne: My Top Stories Of 2013

It’s that time of year again. The time when most news outlets stop reporting original stories and fall back on best-of-the-past-year retrospectives. Here at FORBES, we are still hard at work on new material–namely, the latest 30 Under 30 issue, due out in early January.But that won’t stop me from indulging in a quick glance in the rearview mirror.

Notable moments of my 2013 coverage included traveling to Kansas City to see the inner workings of Tech N9ne’s midwestern hip-hop empire, heading to...