Recently an old friend who hasn't been in touch for three years asked me this question.
I have yet to answer him.
I thought it was a fun-in-an-ironic-sort-of-way question.
WHO WHY WHERE WHAT AND WHEN are the BIG QUESTIONS in journalism. In fact, a journalist is supposed to seduce the reader into reading the WHOLE ARTICLE by attempting to answer all those questions in the first sentence or, if less skilled, the first paragraph, but, reading through the LA Times recently, and being one of those people who tends to read whole articles anyway, I realized that a gentle unfolding of the answers is just as interesting, and maybe even more so.
Now I feel I must compose a ONE SENTENCE ANSWER THAT WILL BE (somewhat) seductive and succinct at once.
WHO WHAT WHERE WHY ARE YOU?
